cantoresq:
“Hecht’s book is not sourced as it happens. He gave no footnotes, rendering his book uesless as a piece of scholarship.”
Obviously you haven’t even read Perfidy in your zeal to defend Kastner. As it happens, Perfidy IS sourced and DOES have footnotes, 205 to be exact. Additionally, a majority of the body of the book is verbatim quotes from the trial. So instead of attacking the author with false charges, why not read the material? And if you then still disagree with some aspects of it, kindly comment on his monumental work, not on the person — a sure sign of someone who lost the argument is they stoop to argumentum ad hominem.