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May 17, 2008

Bruce Ramsey thinks we have the memory of an Alzheimer's patient with a head injury

Ace posted a few days ago a link to an op-ed that provided a pretty clear example of just how far the left-wing media is willing to go to rewrite history. Fortunately, LGF preserved the text of what was originally published, including the money quote:

What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

Not surprisingly, a few people showed up to let him know how unreasonable his claim was. If you didn't catch the original text, I suggest popping over to read it in its entirety, so you can revel in the idiocy that has now been posted.

When I read the op-ed yesterday afternoon, the revisions were already taking place. I wish I'd saved a copy of what was posted then, since he's revised it even further.


The narrative we're given about Munich is entirely in hindsight. We know what kind of man Hitler was, and that he started World War II in Europe. But in 1938 people knew a lot less. What Hitler was demanding at Munich was not unreasonable as a national claim (though he was making it in a last-minute, unreasonable way.) Germany's claim was that the areas of Europe that spoke German and thought of themselves as German be under German authority. In September 1938 the principal remaining area was the Sudetenland.

Is it just me, or were ten million copies of Mein Kampf not published in the mid-1920s? Was Hitler not running around spouting anti-Semitic rhetoric in the mid-1920s? Are we not obligated when a national leader who is working toward developing nukes starts talking about wiping an entire nation off the map, or a national leader threatens to attempt to bring an economic crisis to the US, to do something more than say, "We'd really prefer you didn't do that..." Are we going to pretend that we had no warning?

Apparently this particular editor thinks we can rewrite last century's history as easily as we can ignore what's happening internationally this century. Not only has he rewritten history to reflect a kinder, gentler Hitler, but he's rewriting his own history too. But hey, he's another Seattle 'newsman' who thinks he can decide what's news and what isn't. Must be something in the water up there.

--Alice H.

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