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From: Gerald D. Feldman <gfeld@uclink.berkeley.edu> |
Der folgende Beitrag von Gerald D. Feldman, der im Gefolge der Diskussion um die Bewertung der Reaktionen zur Muenchner-Ausstellung entstand (Lammersdorf, Vogel, Kolbe) wurde als Crossposting von unserer Partnerliste H-German uebernommen. (Ralf Wolz)
As I read Hans Kolbe's latest contribution to another H-NET discussion moving rapidly into outer space, I almost find myself sharing Woody Allen's views of California even though I have lived here since 1963. In any case, I would suggest that Kolbe's perspective is his perspective, not "the California Perspective." I have no spiritual acceptance of the crimes of the Wehrmacht, and I don't see why anyone should, and Jewish-German dialogue on this issue will not help much because the Wehrmacht's crimes were anything but limited to Jews. A few of my best friends are former members of the Wehrmacht, and we understand one another perfectly. Obviously, our views of the Wehrmacht and the role of ordinary Germans in the Second World War are being revised by evidence that is incontrovertible but that needs to be studied, contextualized, and understood with the methods of the historian and the social scientist. We might then be able to take a more informed moral posture instead of indulging our Betroffenheit.
Gerald D. Feldman,
University of California at Berkeley
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