However, aspects of the book have garnered criticism. One of Frankl's main claims in the book is that a positive attitude was essential to surviving the camps. Consequently, he implied and thus helped perpetuate the pervasive myth that those who died had given up. Historians have concluded by contrast that there was little connection between attitude and survival and in reality the implication that Holocaust victims were partially responsible for their fate contained in the book is a derangement of the historical record.