Berlin IYSSE protests Professor Jörg Baberowski’s suppression of democratic discussion at Humboldt University

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War propaganda in the German Historical Museum - World Socialist Web Site

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The German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin is currently showing an exhibition dealing with the horrors and crimes of the First World War. In the very same building, a meeting took place last week which proclaimed the necessity of new wars and war crimes.
In his contribution to the meeting, Jörg Baberowski, Chair of East European History at Humboldt University in Berlin, made the following remarks referring to US-NATO wars conducted against forces such as the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: “And if one is not willing to take hostages, burn villages, hang people and spread fear and terror, as the terrorists do, if one is not prepared to do such things, then one can never win such a conflict and it is better to keep out altogether.”

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klaus++ @klaus 9/10/2014

Baberowski c’est l’anticommuniste de service notoire. Il a dû se plonger si profondément dans ses massacres bolchéviques qu’il ne voit plus que du feu et du sang où qu’il regarde. A lire à ce sujet le résumé des commentaire à propos de son livre Verbrannte Erde, Stalins Herrschaft der Gewalt
▻http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/joerg-baberowski/verbrannte-erde.html
D’après wsws.org Baberowski est carrément un révisionniste.
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/22/babe-f22.html
A leaflet circulated by the IYSSE among students asked the question: “Why has Professor Baberowski invited Robert Service to Humboldt University?” This question can now be answered. Baberowski is utilizing his position at the university to advance the notorious right-wing conceptions of Ernst Nolte, who for three decades has been associated with writings that seek to relativize and diminish the significance of Nazi crimes.
On February 10, the news magazine Der Spiegel published a lengthy article by Dirk Kurbjuwelt dealing with attempts to rewrite German history. Baberowski, an ardent defender of Nolte’s views, plays a prominent role in this campaign. He is quoted by Der Spiegel saying: “Hitler was no psychopath, and he wasn’t vicious. He didn’t want people to talk about the extermination of the Jews at his table.”
In Der Spiegel, Baberowski explicitly defends Nolte. “Nolte was done an injustice,” he told the news magazine. “Historically speaking, he was right.”

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geneghys @geneghys 9/10/2014

@Klaus Merci pour ces précisions ;)

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Berlin IYSSE protests Professor Jörg Baberowski’s suppression of democratic discussion at Humboldt University

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