{"id":306620,"date":"2017-05-04T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-growth-of-german-militarism-and-the-rewriting-of-history\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:48:43","slug":"the-growth-of-german-militarism-and-the-rewriting-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-growth-of-german-militarism-and-the-rewriting-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growth of German Militarism and the Rewriting of History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May Day 2017<\/h4>\n

The Growth of German Militarism and the Rewriting of History<\/h2>\n

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By
\n Sven Wurm
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4 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n

This speech was delivered by Sven Wurm, Spokesman for the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Humboldt University), to the 2017 International May Day Online Rally, held on April 30.<\/em><\/p>\n

In order to wage new imperialist wars and commit fresh crimes, history must be rewritten, and the criminal role of German imperialism minimised and denied. A few days ago, the journal of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers published an interview with an historian, who drew the following comparison between Stalin and Hitler:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve compared Hitler to Stalin. Stalin was a psychopath, Hitler was not. Stalin enjoyed violence, Hitler did not. Hitler knew what he was doing. He was a pencil pusher who did not want to know about the bloody consequences of his deeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already in 2014, the same person had told Germany\u2019s most widely read weekly magazine, Der Spiegel<\/em>: \u201cHitler was not a psychopath, he was not vicious. He did not want to talk about the extermination of Jews at his table.\u201d<\/p>\n

The author in both cases is J\u00f6rg Baberowski, who holds the chair of Eastern European history at Humboldt University in Berlin.<\/p>\n