It’s possible that the academics have only ever used short knives; they’re certainly not very sharp in any case.
I suppose technically Hitler did not use chemical weapons on the battlefield but he sure found the sane compounds quite useful is mass murder.
The other so called academic talked about Danzig and the Polish quarter. He seemed to forget Hitler was given the German speaking Sudentenland, then he proceeded to take all of Czechslovakia. So the idea Hitler would stop if he was given the Polish corridor is ridiculous.
““a leading expert on Russia, American foreign policy, and democratic development around the world””
That just goes to show, as yet one more example out of thousands, that being an expert in something doe not mean much.
“You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.” - Norm MacDonald
Been seeing his name bandied about here quite a bit recently.
at least he didn’t murder his own people.
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Uh,,, that’s WHERE he STARTED.!!!
But since most folk under 50 think Germany bombed Pearl Harbor , they’ll buy this book line and sinker,,,
But that’s what happens when History is replaced with
SOCIALIST indoctrination Studies
in public schools.
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Typical “Expert Opinion”, so obviously bogus that no rational thinking person could buy it.
Is he a former US ambassador? /facepalm
Eisenhower: “Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
How about "Germanic Descent"? Hitler was all about racial purity and the superiority of the so-called "Aryan Race" blonde haired, blue eyed Germans.
German Jews (other than perhaps converts) were not the ethnic Aryan Race Germans that Hitler favored. Jewish German citizens slowly had their rights stripped away before the "final solution" of the gas chambers was affected.
What an absurd argument that German Jews were "ethnic Germans." They were German Citizens, German residents, and part of the German population, but they were not ethnic Germans.
I wonder why Joseph Stalin gets a pass. He killed tens of millions of his own people.
The so-called expert seems to forget the 100s of thousands of German Jews, Gypsies, mentally ill and other undesirables (all Germans) that Hitler murdered with impunity.
An idea so stupid that only an intellectual would believe it.
Sorry Mr. McFaul, but many, many German Jews were ethnic Germans via generations of intermarriage. That’s why the Nazi laws were cutting it as fine as 1 grand-parent in their definition as to “who was a Jew”. As to chemical weapons, they used Zyclon-B... and insecticide... to kill prisoners in their death camps.
Who hires these idiots?
Far be it from me to defend history’s villains and monsters. If they did even a fraction of what they were accused of, they should burn in Hell.
But having witnessed the shameless and horrendous lies and deceptions fed to the masses during my lifetime, and how dutifully and eagerly they are lapped up by a gullible public…
I must say - I don’t believe that “history” is any less prone to fakeness than is “news”.
Fifty years from now, if “history” tells our grandchildren who were the heroes of our times, and who were the villains - which version of the truth will they tell?
Again, I’m not defending evil people of the past - they should burn in Hell. I’m just saying we have a serious information problem - “fake news” is not a modern phenomenon.
Free speech is free speech. We need to hear and consider dissenting voices regarding what we call “history” - even if we find them offensive. We need to hear them.
T4 program, anyone?