http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Historians_Lie en flipzeppelin flipzeppelin Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:42:00 +0100 daily 1 Anatomy of a hatchet job: a look at Richard Grunberger's A Social History of the Third Reich (1971) A Social History of the Third Reich (1971) by Richard Grunberger (1924-2005) can be numbered among the few real evergreens of Third Reich historiography. (NOTE 1) The initial popularity of this work, which has spawned numerous editions over thirty-five years and translations into four different languages, can be attributed to its pioneering role as the first comprehensive overview of German social history in the Hitler era. However, its enduring popularity seems best explained by its ideological goal, the fact that the work seeks to inoculate students against the possible appeal of Hitler and the Nazis by systematically denigrating their every achievement in the social and economic sphere. For A Social History of the Third Reich is everything most teachers and professors seem to expect a book about Nazi Germany to be: a hatchet job. The organizing principle of Grunberger's work -... Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:42:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Historians_Lie/ANATOMY-OF-A-HATCHET-JOB/3/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Historians_Lie/ANATOMY-OF-A-HATCHET-JOB/3/ HISTORIOGRAPHICAL MALFEASANCE UNDER SCRUTINY DURING the course of my research into the origins of World War II, a task in which I have been engaged for many years now, I have uncovered extensive, deliberate lying and deception on the part of professional (i.e., academic) historians. Most people trust academic historians, but the profession rarely repays the public's trust with honest, responsible scholarship. Indeed, you could pick up almost any journal article or book on the origins of World War II at random and what you will encounter will resemble propaganda much more closely than honest, objective historical research. This blog aims to draw attention to the manifold departures from sound historiographical method, including deliberate deception, indulged in by members of the historical profession. Strictly speaking, the academic system is supposed to subject its practitioners to constant monitoring and quality assessment. To this end, for example, the articles published in... Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:07:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Historians_Lie/Introduction-to-this-blog/1/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Historians_Lie/Introduction-to-this-blog/1/