Hi Abi. I was just in the midst of extracting my Jack Russell off the neck of our little chihuahua (very rashly bought to add some joy during all the Nonsense in 2020; but the JR hasn't necessarily always appreciated the addition)... when I suddenly could hear you reading out my last comment, among others, on your podcast that was playin…
Hi Abi. I was just in the midst of extracting my Jack Russell off the neck of our little chihuahua (very rashly bought to add some joy during all the Nonsense in 2020; but the JR hasn't necessarily always appreciated the addition)... when I suddenly could hear you reading out my last comment, among others, on your podcast that was playing - it was a surreal moment! I wanted to add, if I may, that whilst true that points I was making about who put Mao and Lenin in power do not mean that those episodes didn't happen, it's still so important to remember that, like science, history is never settled..... I realised this quite viscerally this week, when I watched an extract of a 2015 Panorama interview with Ursula Haverbeck on Rumble - after learning from the Laura Aboli Telegram channel that UH has just died - aged 96 - in prison in Germany. She was there for 'denial'. They banged up a frail lady in her nineties for speaking her truth. My mum was German and I grew up steeped in the awareness and the guilt of the putative history.... She had been a small child at the end of the war, and was put into a camp for malnourished children, where she had all her hair shaved off... She had me reading I Am David and the like... Although I listened to Jermwarfare's interview with Israeli historian David Cole who forensically examined the history - and found, surprise surprise, that the narrative we've been fed was not exactly accurate - I still had always believed there must be an element of truth to what I grew up believing on this subject.... I'm not so sure any more, after listening to Ursuala Haverbeck.... If you want to really challenge yourself on embedded beliefs - it's a very insightful interview to listen to, with the perspective we have on the world now... She speaks about the 'biggest and most persistent lie in history'.... What struck me powerfully is what it means to have context - this was done to some people - but what was being done to others, what was normal at the time... it can completely and utterly transform the meaning of events. When she talks about the 2 million Germans who were ejected from their homes and were never found again - I am guessing she is referring to the Rhine Meadows camp, which almost no one in England knows about.... the concentration camp for Germans where 2 million died from starvation, run by the US and British, and where soldiers who fed prisoners were shot....... I'm not saying that watching the UH interview gives all the answers, not at all. There might be more to things.... But this narrative we've all been inculcated with, it underpins everything in the modern world, and at best it is not what it was portrayed to have been... I listened to your pod with James, and I'm not on board with his position that we can now assume that EVERYTHING is a lie.... to go from noting many huge lies, to say everything is fake is a logical fallacy. But still there is good reason to question the foundations of almost every grand narrative we have been spun... I wish I could ask my mother - and my grandmother - more about all this. Sadly they are long gone. I find it profoundly moving that a 96 y o had such deep conviction, that she would go to prison for the last years of her life. God rest her soul.
Hi Abi. I was just in the midst of extracting my Jack Russell off the neck of our little chihuahua (very rashly bought to add some joy during all the Nonsense in 2020; but the JR hasn't necessarily always appreciated the addition)... when I suddenly could hear you reading out my last comment, among others, on your podcast that was playing - it was a surreal moment! I wanted to add, if I may, that whilst true that points I was making about who put Mao and Lenin in power do not mean that those episodes didn't happen, it's still so important to remember that, like science, history is never settled..... I realised this quite viscerally this week, when I watched an extract of a 2015 Panorama interview with Ursula Haverbeck on Rumble - after learning from the Laura Aboli Telegram channel that UH has just died - aged 96 - in prison in Germany. She was there for 'denial'. They banged up a frail lady in her nineties for speaking her truth. My mum was German and I grew up steeped in the awareness and the guilt of the putative history.... She had been a small child at the end of the war, and was put into a camp for malnourished children, where she had all her hair shaved off... She had me reading I Am David and the like... Although I listened to Jermwarfare's interview with Israeli historian David Cole who forensically examined the history - and found, surprise surprise, that the narrative we've been fed was not exactly accurate - I still had always believed there must be an element of truth to what I grew up believing on this subject.... I'm not so sure any more, after listening to Ursuala Haverbeck.... If you want to really challenge yourself on embedded beliefs - it's a very insightful interview to listen to, with the perspective we have on the world now... She speaks about the 'biggest and most persistent lie in history'.... What struck me powerfully is what it means to have context - this was done to some people - but what was being done to others, what was normal at the time... it can completely and utterly transform the meaning of events. When she talks about the 2 million Germans who were ejected from their homes and were never found again - I am guessing she is referring to the Rhine Meadows camp, which almost no one in England knows about.... the concentration camp for Germans where 2 million died from starvation, run by the US and British, and where soldiers who fed prisoners were shot....... I'm not saying that watching the UH interview gives all the answers, not at all. There might be more to things.... But this narrative we've all been inculcated with, it underpins everything in the modern world, and at best it is not what it was portrayed to have been... I listened to your pod with James, and I'm not on board with his position that we can now assume that EVERYTHING is a lie.... to go from noting many huge lies, to say everything is fake is a logical fallacy. But still there is good reason to question the foundations of almost every grand narrative we have been spun... I wish I could ask my mother - and my grandmother - more about all this. Sadly they are long gone. I find it profoundly moving that a 96 y o had such deep conviction, that she would go to prison for the last years of her life. God rest her soul.