[ SECRET POST #3354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3354 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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09. [ warning for homophobia / transphobia / misogyny take your pick, people seem to be divided on this one ]













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Comments

Re: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo

[feotakahari]

I've said before that I think David Irving's career is a great tragedy. Ron Rosenbaum has a good account of it in Explaining Hitler.

Hitler loved to burn documents. Very little survived to document how the Holocaust was planned or carried out from the perpetrators' perspective. With so little to document Hitler's role, Irving proposed that he played no role at all, standing by while his underlings orchestrated the crime.

Irving was laughed out of academia for this theory, but he found a devoted audience in neo-Nazis and white supremacists who were eager to clear their idol's name. He openly disliked them and claimed he was just using their resources to support himself while he tried to salvage his reputation, but the more time he spent talking to them, the more his ideas began to overlap with their ideas. In time, he became the foremost historian of the Holocaust deniers, openly debating mainstream scholars with neo-Nazi rhetoric.

After one rally, a neo-Nazi gave him an old document and told him to "keep it safe." It was a letter from one Nazi to another, the first known written evidence that referenced Hitler's role in overseeing the Holocaust.

As extreme as Irving was, he was still a historian, and it wasn't in his nature to keep such a find hidden. He released it along with his own analysis, concluding that the author exaggerated Hitler's role in order to cast blame away from himself. Historians' consensus is that the letter is accurate, but even after all those years of scorn, Irving was able to turn away from the most likely answer and leave his hypothesis unchallenged.

Irving's reputation will always be a joke, even more so now that he made such a significant contribution and refuses to accept it. To me, that's the essence of tragedy--victory and failure intertwined into personal destruction.

Re: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo

[(Anonymous)]

Using neo Nazy rethorics sounds damning.