Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
Simul-blogged at Holocaust Controveries. I. The Controversy Thus Far Among the controversies inspired by the publication in 1977 of David Irving’s Hitler’s War was the reproduction in that volume of a page of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s telephone log. In particular, the page cited by Irving, among other content, listed a series of notes taken by Himmler during …
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I’m still under a pile of work with no real material to share from my coursework and not much time to write anything else. For shits and giggles, here’s a book review I wrote for a class at Edinburgh a few years back. ===== Mayer, Arno J. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The “Final …
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I appeared on Matt Binder’s podcast DOOMED last night. Here’s the appearance plus another hour or so of content from him. Worth subscribing and watching often. I’ll be back in a week or two with this term’s research paper (finally). live now with @thamesdarwin discussing holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists. tune in: https://t.co/wVqBrTGmod — Matt …
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I’m going to finish this series on Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the murder on 30 November 1941 of thousands of Latvian Jews, plus a thousand Reich Jews who had just arrived in Riga, by making a few general observations. Before that, however, a couple of confessions. First, I’m not an historian, although I do have …
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Having addressed Mattogno’s butchering of the Keine Liquidierung phone note and ignorance of points like basic meteorology, geography, and arithmetic, we move in this post to discussing how Mattogno addresses the aftermath of the shooting of a thousand Reich Jews in Riga on 30 November 1941. The “orthodox” history has it that, Lange having lodged a complaint about this …
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Picking up where I left off in my last post, Carlo Mattogno’s treatment of the mass shooting of Latvian Jews, as well as a thousand newly arrived Reich Jews, on 30 November 1941 is riddled with errors and lapses in logic. After briefly remarking on the discrepancy between the actual date of the shooting and the …
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With my blogmates already having responded to parts of Carlo Mattogno’s magnum opus on the Einsatzgruppen, I decided to have a look at the ten pages Mattogno dedicates to the killings in the fall of 1941 in Riga – a topic I’ve had occasion to look at very closely over the last couple of years. I put together …
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How important was anti-Semitism to the Nazi regime before 1939? Had the regime started on the ‘twisted road to Auschwitz’ before 1939? Anti-Semitism was always vitally important to the Nazi regime, although that importance could be muted in public at times. Certainly it was a core philosophical underpinning of the Nazi movement, and while the …
Simul-blogged at Holocaust Controversies You probably missed, but there was a bit of a dust-up a couple of days ago on Twitter. What happened was that, about a month ago, New Atheist Sam Harris hosted Christian Picciolini on his podcast. Picciolini is a former leader of the Hammerskins skinhead group who reformed several years ago …
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Simulblogged at Holocaust Controversies If you’ve never heard of Paul Craig Roberts, don’t feel bad. As a public figure, he seems to have hit his high water mark during the Reagan Adminstration as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he stridently defended supply-side economic policy. Since 2001, he has been a rather loud voice …
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