I am a history buff, with a primary focus on twentieth century war (conflict) & a specific focus on the Third Reich. Most of my ‘knowledge’ is gleaned from personal readings & research.
I am not a formally trained historian. However, I do have a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree with a minor in History. Most of the history courses I took fit within my area of interest. For instance, courses included a history of the Third Reich, 20th Century Warfare. etc.
Essentially, I am not a history expert, but am not a moron either. I may not have all the names, dates and events on the tip of my memory, but I do have a pretty good sense of how the century developed and why we are currently where we are in terms of geo-eco-ethno-politics.
I don’t think my name or identity really matters. If you think it does…please let me know and I will consider putting some personal information up here.
July 9, 2008 at 4:02 pm |
Hi, not quite sure how to address this as there isn’t any association of gender or status….
I have read through some of the site & was struck by the hate that seems to roll quite strongly through your articles. I dont know wether you have a personal history within Nazi germany (and their actions) or if like me the things that went on just repulse you but the hatred worries me.
I believe that a lot of the atrocities that have been commited by the human race have stemmed from hatred & whilst I am not some flowers & free love hippy I do think we all have a responsibility to generations to come to report what happend in our history as accurately as possible & with a solid attempt at non-biase. Have you ever considered that there may be people who would get fired up by what you have here, just like when the speeches made by the nazis & mein kampf & not consider their actions as wrong but riteous, just like the nazis?
I am interested in how you feel about this & would appreciate your feedback
(also I apologise for any spelling errors!!)
July 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm |
To be honest Jo, I didn’t consider anything I wrote here would get people ‘fired up’. Well, it’s not that I didn’t consider it, it didn’t even occur to me. Did the idea that I was being ‘hateful’ occur to me? No.
I appreciate you making me think about it, though. It’s been on my mind all weekend. I don’t like to think of myself as unreasonable, or hateful for that matter.
I have stated the facts as published. This is not supposed to be a debate over the accuracy of information as related from various media. It’s about getting a response, opening eyes (mine included) and starting a dialogue. As long as we’re talking about it, we’re not forgetting.
Should I have presented everything free from bias? I guess. But if you want to start something, you have to take a stand. So I marked my line clearly in the sand. There is no doubt as to which side I stand on. Am I right or wrong? I don’t know, nor do I care. I find right and wrong to be very confusing.
And here’s the lesson – it’s very easy to become what angers you, to become what you hate. So simple that you’d never notice the change in yourself. I think this is what you’re saying to me. And it is upsetting because this might be the first time I’ve realized it.
Thank you for your thought provoking words.
July 15, 2008 at 4:43 am |
You’re both making a fundamental mistake. Getting “fired up” is not a problem per se. Hating is not a problem per se. If you hate falsehood, if you hate injustice, and nothing else, what could possibly be wrong with that?
I would rather have someone who truly hates evil on my side than a person who, fearful of — and controlled by — his own internal world, pretends that a human being can see right and wrong as clear as dawn and not feel the most eveloping hatred toward wrong.
July 16, 2008 at 3:04 am |
Make that “enveloping.”
Stupid “reply” section doesn’t have a spell checker.
July 18, 2008 at 3:31 am |
All of this is fine and dandy. However, in the interests of truth you should publish the facts. There is not one shred of evidence that even one Jew was executed by the Nazis. Many criminals died from diseases of filth while in captivity. The “Holocaust” has been irrefutably established as a propaganda hoax.
July 26, 2008 at 3:03 pm |
Al – you are an idiot. “The Holocasut has been irrefutably established as a propaganda hoax.” I’m sure you have never met or spoken with a survivor of Nazi concentration camps. I know dozens of them, including my parents. Your name suggests either assimilation or self-hating status. which is it, Al? Or is it just that you prefer to identify with the perpetrators rather than the victims.
February 6, 2009 at 3:25 am |
Al Weinberg
There are over 400 Weinberg families listed as liberated Holocaust survivors, and 35 Weinberg records in the Dachau KZ archives.
The Germans were not the consummate record keepers they are erroneously stereotyped for – so there are probably a lot more!
Ask not for whom the bell tolls …
February 10, 2009 at 5:42 pm |
I can’t believe there are still people SO DELUDED (or deliberately obtuse) as to claim that the holocaust was a “propoganda hoax”.
March 17, 2009 at 1:18 am |
If the holocaust was a propaganda hoax(which it defiantly is not), what is the point of the hoax?
May 13, 2009 at 6:00 am |
Please share my new documentary about Von Braun at this link to Part one
THE LOST VON BRAUN part one- intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxiJJS5W65A&feature=channel_page
THE LOST VON BRAUN part Two is the most dramatic,
The filmmaker shows a former Nazi Slave an interview with a retired NASA Employee,and ex-Nazi…who claims the slaves “ate well”.
June 21, 2009 at 4:56 am |
Try getting ten of your friends to keep a ‘hoax’ or secret for one year.
Now try getting entire states, and hundreds of thousands of people to keep a secret.
Sure, right, it didn’t happen. Yeah.
September 22, 2009 at 4:01 am |
I dont know much english like all you white folks do, but I know that there is more to the Nuremburg trials, the concentration camps, and the “holocaust” then what people have made us believe through out the years. It’s better to check the sources where we obtain our information then simply bias because you saw a bunch of dead corpses in the ditch.
October 17, 2009 at 9:16 pm |
I think the Third Reich and Hitler in particular are perenially fascinating as there was so much ambiguety to this period and not least the juxtoposition with high culture (and Germany at that point was the most advanced country in the world in terms of philosophy, art, music, science etc) and barbarism.
Also the pageantry and the occultish nature of the rallies and torchlight processions and smart uniforms and flags worked on the psyche at a very deep level.
I think the 1930s/40s in central and eastern Europe was characterised by quasi intellectualism of competing ideologies and a total disregard for human life. Stalin and Hitler were misanthropes in their own ways and relished genocide as a way of ’sowing the seeds for future greatness’.
Personally I feel ambivilence about this period and the Third Reich. I think a lot of people find it attractive in a perverse way even though few will admit to it.
I think that living in a modern liberal democracy is nice and safe but without a strong common ideology, life can appear dull and without meaning. Technology and consumer goods are fetishized but some of us want something with a bit more substance.
I think in geo-political terms the legacy of the Third Reich was very damaging not least in the middle east and the post war dominance of America and Israel. I do not see myself as anti semetic per se but I am anti Zionist as most left leaning people either are or should be.
In fact I have the most sympathy for communism as only this offers a global solution to the selfish age we live in.
When the next world crisis in capitalism comes, and come it will, we will need to rethink our shallow and crass ideas on so-called democracy and the American model of ‘me-first and f*ck everyone else’ mentality.
Hitlerism and Stalinism is certainly not the way forward but I think we should remember that these were popular movements and besides the terrible suffering involved with both these tyranies there were a few good things also.