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& Social Sciences OnLine ] Organizers of Wehrmachtausstellung tend to immunize themselves against legitimate scholarly criticism Reply-To: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Sender: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Author: John Bottger Date: List members might be interested to read an interview with the organizers of the so-called Wehrmacht exhibition (Wehrmachtsausstellung) in last
week’s DIE ZEIT. The title of the interview is “Am Abgrund der Erinnerung.” It’s available online: http://www3.zeit.de/zeit/nacht/aktuell/199922.wehrmacht.n_.html One of the makers, Hannes Heer, asserts that military historians have supported the exhibition from the very beginning. However, in an informative article in the “Berliner Morgenpost” titled ” Wieder falsche Fotos?
Neue Zweifel an der umstrittenen Ausstellung zur Wehrmacht ,” Rolf-Dieter Mueller of the Military Historical Research Office (Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt) is quoted as saying that the “Präsentation ist didaktisch eine Katastrophe.” Indeed, this is a far cry from Heer’s claim!
In the same article a Hungarian historian argues that some photographs in the exhibit show not soldiers of the Wehrmacht executing Serbian civilians, but instead Hungarian soldiers shooting Serbian partisans in the Hungarian-annexed Vojvodina. It seems to me that the organizers tend to immunize themselves against legitimate scholarly criticism.
By the way here is the online address of the aforementioned article: http://archiv.berliner-morgenpost.de/export/home/netscape/docsroot/contents/bm/archiv1999/990531/politik/story04.html Best regards, Jorg Bottger Independent Scholar [H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine] Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff