Things are very different in Europe. Few people in the UK realise that the Germans and Italians have entirely revised European history to make it seem as if the totalitarianism of the 1930s was just a natural hiccough on the path to a European mega state.
The new European interpretation is called "Europaische burgerkrieg" - stick these words in Google then look at the translated texts. Europaische burgerkrieg means "The European Civil War".
Here are some links for your delectation:
The European Civil War
Wikipedia: the European Civil War
European Civil War as a Fundamental Crisis
Inkultura Online - review of Nolte
Needless to say these revisionist texts do not mention the heroic efforts by the British to preserve democracy when the whole world turned against it. The British are rather seen as a fading power that acted to prevent the inevitable for a few years.
It might appear that this revisionism is just a peripheral issue but consider the article in The Independent by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: There's magic in a crisis – and good reasons for hope amid the gloom:
"All emerged from internecine wars – in Spain's and Britain's cases from dynastic conflicts, and in that of the US from the "Revolutionary War", the power struggle among colonial elites. The European Union, similarly, emerged from a period of furious internal conflict that German historians call the Europäische Bürgerkrieg – literally, the European civil war, which ended in 1945 and directly inspired our drive for unification."(Independent 12/11/11)
Our newspapers and media are either parochial or looking out beyond Europe, perhaps it is time that they examined what is happening on our own doorstep.
I can't imagine what historical entity the stable parts of the Eurozone might represent, that these European Civil War revisionists think is being reborn. Can you? The Welsh want back a country from 700 years ago and the Scots want one back from 1700 AD but surely 1600 AD is too long ago...
See also:
France, the third axis power
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The new European interpretation is called "Europaische burgerkrieg" - stick these words in Google then look at the translated texts. Europaische burgerkrieg means "The European Civil War".
Here are some links for your delectation:
The European Civil War
Wikipedia: the European Civil War
European Civil War as a Fundamental Crisis
Inkultura Online - review of Nolte
Needless to say these revisionist texts do not mention the heroic efforts by the British to preserve democracy when the whole world turned against it. The British are rather seen as a fading power that acted to prevent the inevitable for a few years.
It might appear that this revisionism is just a peripheral issue but consider the article in The Independent by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: There's magic in a crisis – and good reasons for hope amid the gloom:
"All emerged from internecine wars – in Spain's and Britain's cases from dynastic conflicts, and in that of the US from the "Revolutionary War", the power struggle among colonial elites. The European Union, similarly, emerged from a period of furious internal conflict that German historians call the Europäische Bürgerkrieg – literally, the European civil war, which ended in 1945 and directly inspired our drive for unification."(Independent 12/11/11)
Our newspapers and media are either parochial or looking out beyond Europe, perhaps it is time that they examined what is happening on our own doorstep.
I can't imagine what historical entity the stable parts of the Eurozone might represent, that these European Civil War revisionists think is being reborn. Can you? The Welsh want back a country from 700 years ago and the Scots want one back from 1700 AD but surely 1600 AD is too long ago...
France, the third axis power
Laying up treasure from overseasSource URL: https://indahrahmadewi.blogspot.com/2011/11/europaische-burgerkrieg-anyone.html
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