Inflation of Guilt Culture
19-04-2023
On 30 March 2023, an article titled ‘1923 Toxic Papers’ appeared in Germany's weekly magazine Der Freitag. A highly simplified portrayal and interpretation of the unilateral restoration of peace in the course of the mutually agreed ceasefire after an increasingly exhausting global war is offered by historian Rudolf Walther.
Walther did not succeed in applying the rules of historical critique. At the same time, one may argue that the prevailing narrative's fallacy was exposed.
Peter de Bourgraaf
Many thanks to Theo Mayer, Program Leader and Chief Technologist of the Doughboy Foundation, for his promptly offered translation services 🇩🇪 > 🇬🇧
The special ‘Zeit’ issue of January 2019 says: ‘The peace negotiations at the end of World War I began in January 1919 in Paris. (...) Germany hopes for mildness, France demands harshness and America punts on democracy and national self-determination.’ Comment: how about 🇬🇧 / 🇬🇧 ?! As a matter of fact, no peace for the world (Kein Frieden für die Welt)