widthWhat are the new historians arguing about, and whose tricks can viewers follow in newspapers, radio, and the Internet? For those who face it only as an occasional reader or an occasional listener, its intense and sharp tone must seem incomprehensible.
Is it about criticism of German memorials and memorials? (As the Australian genocide researcher Dirk Moses wrote) Based on doctrinal quiz, a collection of belief rules, the most important of which is massacre Should be regarded as a single, unparalleled crime against humanity, why is every contextualization and every historicization banned? This is politically equivalent to the fact that the Germans, as the perpetrators, must be irrefutable loyal to the State of Israel, no matter how badly it conquered the Palestinians? In addition, this German doctrinal question and answer obscures the view on the crimes of colonialism, and the crimes of colonialism first formed the overall background in which the Holocaust must be viewed.
Or, as the other party had assumed, it was mainly the left that tried what conservatives failed to do in the first historian debate: to relativize the Holocaust and interpret it as one of many crimes, just A chapter in the long history of crime in the West, so Germany’s crimes are no longer so serious, and Germany’s obligations to Israel are no longer binding, yes, in general, the State of Israel is no longer considered a refuge and may be the last Of refuge. What about the Jewish fortress that must be defended by all means? But as a white settlement and an oppressor and colonizer of the Palestinian people?
Who can walk upright now?
The writer and historian Per Leo in his new book “No Tears of Sadness” (nylon button, 20 euros), it is not so much a historical and political non-fiction book as a prose, but it is still based on many footnotes (and can be read repeatedly against the author’s intentions), giving some surprising The answer, which may be the most useful, politically urgent, and closest to life is that all memorials and memorials, beautiful wreaths and serious expressions in front of memorials are often empty, false, and false, so that this It is probably the greatest advantage of this historian’s argument that those who oppose relativization and post-colonization are eager to rethink their rituals, ways of speaking, and emotional posture.
Singularity is a term that is more clearly defined in astronomy (where time and space bend to infinity) than in the history of human crime. An abstract, non-explanatory term. When it comes to German crimes, one essay can be formulated by one person. One hundred times, and then refused again without gaining a lot of new knowledge. As long as you don’t ask what is so unique to whom and why.
Is unique Jewish After more than two thousand years of persecution, hatred, and discrimination, when many people hoped that the situation would improve, they saw that they were surrounded by neighbors, and they decided to eliminate the entire Jews. Who did this until the Allied forces stopped killing. What is unique is that the Germans, a civilized people of civilized Europe, elected a criminal as their ruler only two generations after they finally became a country, and then still used their last strength to defend the regime, almost everyone knows Or suspect that they knew where the Jewish neighbors were dragged, and what horrible things were done to them.
