ernst jünger in cyberspace

mailing list archive - Re: Juenger/Harrer

> Has anyone noticed a parallel between the criticism of Jünger and
> the hoopla over the discovery that Heinrich Harrer, author of SEVEN
> YEARS IN TIBET, was an SS officer before he went to India and
> thence to Tibet.  I mean the attempt to knock down a heroic figure
> who has gone his own way for many decades.

Yes, but being an officer of the SS and being an officer of an
front line infantry battalion of the Wehrmacht ain't the same
ballpark, ain't the same league, ain't even the same sport.  Harrer
mission, from what I gather from the media, was funded because Himmler
wished to find evidences for his racist theories.  They were looking
for the place where the Aryans came from, or something like that.

Umberto Rossi

"L'unica vera rivoluzione che si
deve fare in Italia e' che chi e' pagato
per fare un lavoro lo faccia."


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