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Hi Jon P. Moore and Phylo, You bring up an interesting linguistic point that the author Nicholas Monserrat raised in an article I saw twenty-plus years ago. He commented how in English literature U-boats tended cunningly to slink beneath the waves preying on unarmed merchantmen, whereas bold British...

Hi C D the E, It has always been the case on Feldgrau that "ANY attack against Jews or any other ethnic group is strictly off-limits and subjects the poster to immediate banning." Thus such tendencies are instead sometimes exhibited in more indirect ways by insinuation, innuendo, different...

Hi statemachine,

I wouldn't disagree, but then why bring it up in the first place?

It is not as if the failings of Britain and France after WWII were the subject of discussion here in the first place, is it?

Cheers,

Sid.

Hi Statemachine, I don't think you will find any threads on Feldgrau started by those advocating the pursuit of Nazi war criminals. However, you will find that where it is raised it is in reply to those who think some war criminals were hard done. Feldgrau is a German-focused site, so Germany is aut...

Hi Phylo, In my opinion, no thread should ever be culled. It should be closed but left up with a final direct admonition of the guilty party so that nobody has any doubt who did what and what the offending issues were. It would then acts as a warning to others. Removing evidence of the misdemeanour ...

Hi Uli, If Paddy had accompanied it with some explanation, I might already know what its significance was meant to be. However, he did not and I am just not sure what to make of it. As far as I can tell, it consists of a statement by a W-SS man present who fingers the W-SS for the Oradour massacre a...

Hi Phylo, This is not a free speech issue. There are plenty of shock-jock style forums where anything goes and good luck to them. However, Feldgrau purports to be a military-historical research site that restricts its subject matter in its constitution, so all joining already know that there are lim...

Hi Phylo, I must have missed something contentious! This is perfectly soluble from just the American side of the pond. All that is necessary is (1) to recognise the nature of the problem in the first place and (2) to stop cutting repeat offenders so much slack. One won't get "passionate" r...

Hi Paddy,

In brief; What do you think is the significance of the statement you posted?

Cheers,

Sid.

Hi Paddy, In your post of Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:53 am you write: "In my view, Westemeier appears to have performed a complete volte face, right down to assuming the tactics of the kind of people who ferociously criticised his first book. One wonders what brought about this sea change. A desire to...

Hi Jock, There is no doubt that in the last thousand years Scotland has been more an emigrant than immigrant state and is therefore more homogenous than England (which holds more people of Scotish descent than Scotland itself). The exception being the large influx of Irish into Glasgow and, to a muc...

Hi pzrmeyer, Political self-proclamation matters in historians because it implies a prejudged position before any evidence is even presented. This in turn, undermines any claim to objectivity. Nope. I have never called myself "objective". That is yet another of your inventions. If I ever w...

Hi pzrmeyer,

Are you agreeing with me, or have you just cocked up the presentation of your post?

Cheers,

Sid.

Hi pzrmeyer,

Do Westermeier and Goldhagen procalim themselves as politically-hyphenated historians?

If they do, then what I said covers them.

Now, a question for you: Do they procalim themselves as politically-hyphenated historians?

Cheers,

Sid.

Hi Uncle Joe,

What I said covers anyone who proclaims themselves a politically-hyphenated historian of any sort. That is what the "Etc." covered.

Cheers,

Sid.