An Eye for an Eye

by John Sack

Book Overview

The Book They Can't Suppress Not for sixty years has a book been so brutally (and, in the end, unsuccessfully) suppressed as An Eye for an Eye. One major newspaper, one major magazine, and three major publishers paid $40,000 for it but were scared off. One printed 6,000 books, then pulped them. Two dozen publishers read An Eye for an Eye and praised it. "Shocking, "Startling," "Astonishing," "Mesmerizing," "Extraordinary," they wrote to Author John...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465042147
• ISBN13: 9780465042142
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A Horrifying Historical Account

Horrifying account of atrocities committed against German civilians by Jews in the aftermath of World War II. Long-suppressed story -- by a fearless Jewish author and noted journalist -- of how Jews of the Polish Communist "Office of State Security" killed and brutally mistreated many tens of thousands of German men, women and children in concentration camps and prisons in conquered German territories. This story was featured on a "60 Minutes" broadcast segment. Antony Polonsky, Prof. of E. European Jewish History at Brandeis University, comments on An Eye for An Eye: "... Extremely gripping and compelling account of the appalling events which accompanied the end of the war and the expulsion of the Germans ... impossible to put down ... a major contribution to our understanding

Finally, the truth.. Much more needs to be exposed.

I have lived in East Germany as a child in 1945 and was aware of the rabid brutality of the victors. Rapes, mass killings, and disrespect for basic human rights were a daily standard. - German misdeeds could not have been much worse. It does not surprise me that conditions behind the Oder-Neisse line was truly barbaric. John Sack has documented his sources with great thoroughness. I have no doubt that his description of the 1255 Concentration Camps in which thousands of innocent German civilians were murdered, differs little from those atrocities handed out by Eichmann, Mengele, and Heydrich. According to Sack, most of these camps were headed by Jewish administrators. Many are alive today in Israel and the USA.The Allies of WWII have conspired to cover up these atrocities in a big way. John Sack is a courageous and tenacious writer.

Serving truth and compassion.

I want to thank John Sack for his courage in researching this difficult topic. I have Jewish friends who admire John Sack as much as I do.I myself had an American mother and a German father and spent my childhood in Germany during the Second World War. Then I married a German whose father (who was not a Nazi) died in one of the Polish camps after the war under mysterious circumstances, simply because he lived in that area. John Sack's research helped many sorrowing families to find out what actually happened to their relatives.Millions of Germans still suffer guilt and sorrow for the holocaust but do not know how to express it because they were told over and over again that words can't express the dreadfulness of what their compatriots did. There are many memorials. There is a memorial march every year at Dachau. Children in Berlin made a wall of bricks with the names of all the Jews who lived in their neighbourhood. Teachers try to help children to come to terms with the terrible deeds of their grandparents. John Sack's book is a revelation in many ways. He understands the desire of a holocaust survivor for revenge, but it becomes evident that revenge will not heal the bruised, suffering human soul. Hatred creates more hatred. So we must know the facts in order that such things don't happen again.

Exciting

Congratulations to John Sack. I have read this book borrowed from someone and I have to have it myself. Is there any way the publisher will publish it again? I want to leave this exciting reading to my children and I also know about scores of my Polish compatriotes as well as Germans and Czechs in Australia, who are truth hangry and who would buy this book immediately if available. As a Pole of origin I am glad, that someone from the Jewish community took up the challenge, since the tragedy of many Polish officers and soldiers from the Home Underground Army was, that they have fought Germans during the war (having among other goals to protect also Jews), yet after the war they found themselves in the same prisons run by Jews as German criminals. I suppose Mr John Sack suffered much himself first facing the truth, secondly probably he was isolated from his Jewish friends and singled out as a black sheep. Whatever happened, Mr John Sack, our warmest feelings are with you.

It makes the world aware that no ethnic group is lily white

A professor at Harvard said that "every" German was responsible for the Nazi atrocities. After reading this book I ask him is every Jew responsible for the atrocities they committed on innocent German civilians?