An article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently
(c) NYR, 2011
Archive for Second World War
National(istic) Carnival in Lviv
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1941, genocide, Lviv, Second World War, Ukraine on 30 June 2011 by delclem“Lviv re-enacts the June 30, 1941 Ukrainian National revolution (and the German invasion). Parents dress their children in ethnic outfits to applaud the men in SS uniforms. The driver of the sidecar MC even grew a little Hitler mustache. No re-enactment of the pogroms, it seems,” says Dr Per Rudling (more photos on zaxid.net).
How tasteless is this sort of national(istic) Carneval?
It does not really come over as the re-enactment of a trauma…
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Read the interview with Dr Rudling on SS recruitment in the Ukraine, the country’s contested past and the creation of false myths
in the blog Hitler’s Foreign Executioners
Or the article by Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe on The Act of 30 June 1941 and its Commemoration in Ukraine in the blog Defending History
Nazis in Ireland, 1940-47
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Germany, Ireland, Nazi spy, Second World War on 5 May 2011 by delclem
A true story
like from a B-movie,
with some elements of Realsatire
(from today’s Irish Times)
delirium clemens 