http://www.blog4history.com/2010/01/who-are-oliver-stones-hitler-historians/ The American Experience in the Classroom Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:11:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.blog4history.com/2010/01/who-are-oliver-stones-hitler-historians/comment-page-1/#comment-15035 Michael Schack Mon, 17 May 2010 16:36:24 +0000 http://www.blog4history.com/?p=1119#comment-15035 I alsoI emember an interview after september 11 where O. stone was talking about "artistic justice" in describing what occurred. How it would release this "energy." I do not wish to say something obscene at this point. I alsoI emember an interview after september 11 where O. stone was talking about “artistic justice” in describing what occurred. How it would release this “energy.” I do not wish to say something obscene at this point.

]]> http://www.blog4history.com/2010/01/who-are-oliver-stones-hitler-historians/comment-page-1/#comment-15034 Michael Schack Mon, 17 May 2010 16:33:11 +0000 http://www.blog4history.com/?p=1119#comment-15034 I think Stone is dangerous for the movies and television have great influence. I know there is a book out titled "How IBM helped the Nazis". It is about the holerith machine developed by IBM Germany To say IBM assisted the Nazi Effort is a stretch. But conspiracy theories sell movies and books. My question is broader How does one present the context for some of the wrong things this country actually has done. I am thinking about operation “Keel Haul.” I came across it from an article Pat Buchanan wrote some years ago. It is also briefly mentioned in the book Yalta by SW.M. Plokhy. The IBM thing about assisting the Nazis is bogus. When I teach the section on the Holocaust I do mention Stalin as committing genocide in the USSR which allows the class to understand the difference between the two. We Discuss how Stalin deported entire ethnic groups as the Tartars of the Crimea (200,000) by boxcar. Stalin was clearly a murderer. However, both Churchill and Roosevelt acknowledged that Russia felt the impact of the war more then any other country. It was also the Russian army that destroyed the German army. For more data on this check Max Hastings. That does not denigrate either the British or American war effort. I once read something that went By 1945 Russia and America won the war but in 1940 it was the British that did not lose it. (a paraphrase) I think Stone is dangerous for the movies and television have great influence. I know there is a book out titled “How IBM helped the Nazis”. It is about the holerith machine developed by IBM Germany To say IBM assisted the Nazi Effort is a stretch. But conspiracy theories sell movies and books. My question is broader How does one present the context for some of the wrong things this country actually has done. I am thinking about operation “Keel Haul.” I came across it from an article Pat Buchanan wrote some years ago. It is also briefly mentioned in the book Yalta by SW.M. Plokhy. The IBM thing about assisting the Nazis is bogus. When I teach the section on the Holocaust I do mention Stalin as committing genocide in the USSR which allows the class to understand the difference between the two. We Discuss how Stalin deported entire ethnic groups as the Tartars of the Crimea (200,000) by boxcar. Stalin was clearly a murderer. However, both Churchill and Roosevelt acknowledged that Russia felt the impact of the war more then any other country. It was also the Russian army that destroyed the German army. For more data on this check Max Hastings. That does not denigrate either the British or American war effort. I once read something that went By 1945 Russia and America won the war but in 1940 it was the British that did not lose it. (a paraphrase)

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