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Douglas
Rees spotted the General-Patton-and-his-niece story in The War Between the Generals,
Churchill and Hitler, volumes on
A FEW days ago, the hard disk on my computer went to the great beyond. Among the things I lost were the downloads I had earlier made of several of your books in pdf format. I was overjoyed to find that replacements were still available.
Among other things, I consider your description of
General George S Patton Jr in “The
War Between the Generals” as among the best I have ever encountered. I noticed that you hinted at (but did not quite mention) Jean Gordon, Patton’s niece, with whom the general had a more-than-avuncular familiarity.
As someone who has had an inordinate love of history throughout his life, I am appalled at the current tendency (both in America and in Europe) to apply criminal and other sanctions to “revisionist” historians. Your treatment by the
German government and others has been a case in point.
No one alive could detest Hitler, his regime, and the “final solution” more than I do. I firmly believe that the Holocaust did take place (though the precise details of how it happened — how many people were killed when and where — are subject to research and possible revision). But
I also believe that those who take a contrary view should be refuted in the open court of rational debate, and not suppressed by the power of entrenched institutions.
When we begin to censor ideas — even those we consider bad — we give them a credibility they would not otherwise possess. The Catholic Church found this out, to its sorrow, long ago. I wish modern “liberals” would learn from that historical experience.
Douglas
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