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* excerpts from Judie’s (5 *****) review of THE HERETIC on Goodreads

for links my 4 published novels and my new novel in progress, CLICK >>>  http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/wel... *********************************** excerpts from Judie’s 5 ***** review of THE HERETIC on Goodreads  THE HERETIC provides an intriguing story of life in Spain during the 15th Century. It grabbed and held my interest, making me want to learn more about the […]

* excerpts from Judie’s 5 ***** review of THE HERETIC on Goodreads (posted 11/19/13)

  THE HERETIC provides an intriguing story of life in Spain during the 15th Century. It grabbed and held my interest, making me want to learn more about the characters, both the good and bad ones. The book presents well-told explanations of the political situation at the time, not only between Jews and Christians but […]

* letter to the editor of ZEIT regarding the “Terror and Fascination” exhibit at the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg

Letter to the Editor (Nov 1, 2013) … the “Fascination and Terror” exhibit in Nuremberg needs to be reviewed and re-designed *** NOTE: see more details and the entirety of my email interchange with the Museum Director at …  http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201... *** My wife and I visited the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg on June 28, 2012. […]

* writing in a Paris cafe … a scene in my new novel … tentatively titled NO EXIT

Here I am at one of our favorite cafes, called La Favorite, a few steps from our apartment, having morning coffee and croissant, working on my novel. What I’m doing is watching the 1930 movie “All Quiet on the Western Front,” while taking notes for the scene I’m working on. *** The scene that resulted (draft […]

* writing in a Paris cafe … a scene in my new novel … tentatatively titled NO EXIT

Here I am at one of our favorite cafes, called La Favorite, a few steps from our apartment, having morning coffee and croissant, working on my novel. What I’m doing is watching the 1930 movie “All Quiet on the Western Front,” while taking notes for the scene I’m working on. *** The scene that resulted (draft […]

* new tentative title for my novel on progress … NO EXIT

*** NO EXIT *** I’m writing a historical novel about events in Germany and Poland in the Nazi years. The major characters are a German boy who becomes a Nazi and a Polish girl who becomes a victim. Their story, and their relationship, unfolds against a background neither can escape. The title is taken from […]

* the article reproduced below describes incomprehensible acts of murder against innocent civilians committed by the German people. The question I am addressing in my new novel-in-progress is why they were capable of such behavior.

*** Inside the Nazi Mind at the Nuremberg Trials  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles...  *** At Nuremberg, 24 of the highest-ranking Nazis were put on trial, but behind the scenes they were also being analyzed by leading American psychologists to figure out the root of their evil. Thomas Harding on what they discovered. by Thomas Harding  | September 7, 2013 4:45 AM […]

* Lew’s review of The International Jew by Henry Ford … research for my 5th novel

I’m only about 20% into this disgusting series of tirades published in a paper Ford owned. Probably the rest is more of the same. It seems to me that Ford’s loathing and fear of Jews matches that of Hitler, who had a life-size portrait of Ford in his Munich office. . Henry Ford was a […]

* Lew’s review of … The Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred Rosenberg

This is Rosenberg’s incomprehensible, unreadable and I think mostly unsuccessful attempt to cast Hitler’s hatred in more scholarly form. He ranges pretentiously over a wide variety of topics with no regard for connection, consistency or truth. UTTER GARBAGE. Some examples … • Greedy for the goods of this world, the Jew moves from city to […]

* Lew’s review of “Those Angry Days” by Lynne Olson … research for my novel-in-progress (tentatively titled … Choosing Hitler: a novel)

An absolutely fantastic read. Olson writes history with the pace and intensity of a novel. Characters (real characters) are exposed bit by bit through their actions to have their strengths (Wendell Willkie) and weaknesses (FDR and Lindbergh) picked open to view. *** I have always liked FDR but now like him much less. I have […]