This should be required viewing and his book should be required reading in all schools in the United States. High schools and up! We need to hear this. We need to better understand what happened and move beyond the sanitized and dangerous views that are now presented. I was not looking for this, but I am so grateful to him for all he has done and is doing.
A remarkably weak (at bottom) exposition from somebody presented as a leading Holocaust "scholar". As an aside, I have my reservations about the increasing use of the term "scholar". it seems to derive from a translatory derivation of a particular community's own academic and social status distinction of the worth and weight to be accorded to certain of its members by its own social and religious norms. If accepted, it follows that such "scholars" can claim exclusive rights of exposition and interpretation in their field. No, thank you, I shall hold on to my right to weigh up and decide on matters fully represented in knowledge terms in today's internet-enabled society. Mr Stone's broad extension of culpability in the Holocaust to virtually all non-British European political entities is neither new nor unjustified to be honest, but his motives at this late stage are questionable. If all are guilty, then who can avoid the "scholars'" flail? It is not true that some of the things he mentions are "neglected" - YT for one is replete with detailed survivors' accounts of hardships and horrors in the Rumanian context and elsewhere for example - it is rather that fashions seem to change amongst what aspects of the Holocaust that the "scholars" seek to push forward from time to time. One time the evil of the NSDAP state and people, next the collaborative guilt of its allies, then the underlying complicity of Christian Europe and its cultural environment and products, and then again the impertinence and ineligibility of non-Jews to weigh in adequately or appropriately on the whole subject of the Holocaust altogether. And so on... It is perhaps unsurprising that Mr Stone in his final comments imports into his remarks a very topical (and non-objective) equation of Putin with Hitler in the current Ukrainian context. A most curious exception given to Ukraine in Mr Stone's previous blasting of dangerous legacy supposed far-right political structures in Europe. He passes over in silence Ukraine's Banderist legacies, let alone its use of military forces using NSDAP imagery and flags on its vehicles. They're untouchable, it seems. An omission which calls into question Mr Stone's real objectivity and worth as a moral guide and commentator. Bringing matters up to date, he probably has no qualms with the contemporary re-enactment of both Guernica and the Warsaw Ghetto extinguishment we see happening in in Gaza today.
This should be required viewing and his book should be required reading in all schools in the United States. High schools and up! We need to hear this. We need to better understand what happened and move beyond the sanitized and dangerous views that are now presented. I was not looking for this, but I am so grateful to him for all he has done and is doing.
What is this rubbish?
A remarkably weak (at bottom) exposition from somebody presented as a leading Holocaust "scholar".
As an aside, I have my reservations about the increasing use of the term "scholar". it seems to derive from a translatory derivation of a particular community's own academic and social status distinction of the worth and weight to be accorded to certain of its members by its own social and religious norms. If accepted, it follows that such "scholars" can claim exclusive rights of exposition and interpretation in their field. No, thank you, I shall hold on to my right to weigh up and decide on matters fully represented in knowledge terms in today's internet-enabled society.
Mr Stone's broad extension of culpability in the Holocaust to virtually all non-British European political entities is neither new nor unjustified to be honest, but his motives at this late stage are questionable. If all are guilty, then who can avoid the "scholars'" flail?
It is not true that some of the things he mentions are "neglected" - YT for one is replete with detailed survivors' accounts of hardships and horrors in the Rumanian context and elsewhere for example - it is rather that fashions seem to change amongst what aspects of the Holocaust that the "scholars" seek to push forward from time to time. One time the evil of the NSDAP state and people, next the collaborative guilt of its allies, then the underlying complicity of Christian Europe and its cultural environment and products, and then again the impertinence and ineligibility of non-Jews to weigh in adequately or appropriately on the whole subject of the Holocaust altogether. And so on...
It is perhaps unsurprising that Mr Stone in his final comments imports into his remarks a very topical (and non-objective) equation of Putin with Hitler in the current Ukrainian context. A most curious exception given to Ukraine in Mr Stone's previous blasting of dangerous legacy supposed far-right political structures in Europe. He passes over in silence Ukraine's Banderist legacies, let alone its use of military forces using NSDAP imagery and flags on its vehicles. They're untouchable, it seems.
An omission which calls into question Mr Stone's real objectivity and worth as a moral guide and commentator. Bringing matters up to date, he probably has no qualms with the contemporary re-enactment of both Guernica and the Warsaw Ghetto extinguishment we see happening in in Gaza today.