Re: SV: Saving Germany and liberating Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania 1918-23

[Carlos Mancini <cm4@worldnet.att.net>]

John King wrote:

The suggestion that his work might be of dubious quality

> because he is Jewish is one that I explicitly reject.

There is a difference between being a Jewish and being a zionist.
The zionist point of view about the Freikorps is the one that I explicitly
reject.

Carlos Mancini






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>
> Furthermore, I believe that *all* historical research and discourse
> emerges from an interaction between the historian's present and the
> recoverable artefacts and documents (and whatever else) he or she is
> working on. What makes the arts and humanities so interesting is the
> debate between scholars who bring new perspectives which constantly
> evolve. Thus, to reject someone's work because they have their own
> position is to misunderstand what the arts and humanities are about. (That
> said, we often have to pretend we have reached oracular certainty in our
> research because that's what the rhetorical rules say, but that's a
> completely different point).
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> BTW, let's also not forget that the Freikorps were extremely brutal in
> their indiscriminate political violence suppressing left-wing
> insurrection. Following the Baltic expedition they were also involved in
> politically motivated murder and terrorism.
>
> JK
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