Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: This Mediocre Work was Actually Nominated for a Book Award

It is incredible that a book whose thesis rests on a few non-eyewitnesses (one of them a pro-Soviet, anti-Polish Jewish Communist--Wassersteyn), and which is so soundly contradicted by other sources omitted by the author Gross, could be so highly acclaimed and even nominated for a Book Award. There is little doubt that it was the German Nazis, and not the local Poles, who murdered approximately 150-400 (not 1,600)local Jews by pushing them into a barn and then setting it on fire. Either the critics have somehow forgotten all of the standards for judging the accuracy of books that purport to deal with historic events, or there is some agenda afoot to blacken Poland's reputation. Perhaps this is part of the Holocaust Industry, in this case the attempt to extort "reparations" money from Poland (for further discussion of this, see the Jewish author, Norman Finkelstein, and his book, THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY).