Knowing liars

Lawyers should be good at spotting fraud, but they often aren’t.  Same thing with historians. But this time the historians got it right:

About that fabricated (and now canceled) Holocaust memoir, by Herman Rosenblat, which David Mehegan writes about at Off the Shelf … Lesson: sometimes professors know what they are talking about.

Deborah Lipstadt called it a year ago. Here’s Lipstadt, a professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory, writing on December 7, 2007: “There is a Holocaust story making the rounds on the Internet which is clearly not true.” At this point, she seems to think it’s just a bit of Internet flotsam: “If you get this email do NOT send it on to other people. Delete it.”