Category Archives: Germany

The “German Historians’ Dispute” (German: Historikerstreit)

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Luke Ford

Google notes: “The “German Historians’ Dispute” (German: Historikerstreit) was a highly publicized and controversial debate among German historians in the late 1980s and early 1990s, primarily sparked by the publication of a controversial article in 1986 that downplayed the severity … Continue reading →

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The Role Of God In Hitler’s Panzers East

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Luke Ford

David Stahel writes in his 2023 book Hitler’s Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded: A common set of beliefs that all four generals shared was their relationship to the Protestant Church and the significance this assumed in explaining … Continue reading →

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Decoding Germans & Jews (8-9-23)

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Luke Ford

01:00 Different groups have different interests sometimes03:00 It’s racist to force people to return to the work20:00 German and Jews (2016), https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/germans_and_jews22:00 Germans and Jews, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5718290/35:00 Can you have too much Holocaust education?

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Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

Posted on August 28, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some excerpts from this 2017 book by Christopher Clark: * The Prussian government continued to discriminate against Jewish applicants to public office. Jews found it extremely difficult to achieve promotion into the upper ranks of the judiciary, for … Continue reading →

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Beyond The Academic Ethic

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Luke Ford

Philosopher Stephen Turner published this essay in 2019: * the German academic system of the late nineteenth century, which became the model for the modern research university… * Harvard University, for the first three centuries of its existence, was essentially … Continue reading →

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