One-Eyed Knowledge « LRB blog
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/08/01/glen-newey/one-eyed-knowledge
The Germans still pussyfoot around Israel’s violations of international law, for obvious historical reasons. What is less obvious is why, for exactly the same reasons, they don’t shut up about Russia. In what Russians still call the Great Patriotic War after the launch of Barbarossa by the Nazis, the USSR lost between 18 and 24 million combatants and civilians, including a very large number of Russian Jews. In the selective historical memory of the EU politburo, those murders count as Jews, but not as Russians. Still more dangerous, perhaps, than wholesale ignorance is one-eyed knowledge.