Historical Inaccuracies:

[Dances_in_Underwear]

I loved Apt Pupil. I found it to be a very disturbing, chilling masterpiece of literature. However, of course, there was some historical inaccuracies that I noticed. I don't mean to be a party pooper, but for the sake of dialogue, here they are:

1. Mr. Denker says that the Nazis created soap out of the fat of the Jews. The Illinois Institute of the Holocaust says that that never happened.

2. He tells Todd about how the gas (for the gas chambers) was released through the vents. That's not true either. The gas was created by pellets, that was activated by the water.

3. At the end, the Israel Secret Service says that when Mr. Denker is recovered, they will extradite him to Jeruselem at the end of the summer. The Israel Secret Service would never do that. They would sneak him out, with a team of their own doctors to make sure he didn't die, and smuggle him to their country as soon as they could so he could be executed. And if they couldn't, they would send in an assassin to the hospital to kill him.

It's important to note that the Israelites make the US's CIA look like children because they are so tough and good at what they do. They are 100 times more competent that America's, and in my opinion, are the best in the world. The bottom line is, they get their revenge in matters like that. Of course, it would have been illegal to smuggle him out of the hospital, but Israel is an ally of the US, and considering Mr. Denker was a filthy Nazi who evaded justice for so long, I doubt that the American government would have kicked up much of a fuss over his rights being violated.

I know that it's hard to say what characters in a fictional book would and wouldn't have done (unless you're the person who wrote it). But I'm just using the facts to come to my conclusion, and the fact that they have done things like that before.

Anyway, sorry for my big, long rant. After I read the story, I started studying WW2 history in my free time.

Did anyone else come across any historical inaccuracies?

[GNTLGNT]

Yep, the world isn't flat after all...