Re:Historian suspended by Facebook after sharing document by...
by koheripbal on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:50PM
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He shared a newly discovered unpublished document written by Goebbels with other historians. He did not make a comment in his post, because he felt the document itself was comical enough to be funny.
This was in no way propaganda since the order was about German soldiers contracting VD in Parisian brothels.
Facebook banned it/him.
He makes his own point pretty concretely...
> It must be stressed that any objective investigation of history and research of the past becomes simply impossible if quotations from primary sources are grounds for punishment. Any curtailing of documentary evidence leads not to peace in the community but to the preordained failure to learn from history. It eventually allows the tragedies of the past to be repeated anew.
This was in no way propaganda since the order was about German soldiers contracting VD in Parisian brothels.
Facebook banned it/him.
He makes his own point pretty concretely...
> It must be stressed that any objective investigation of history and research of the past becomes simply impossible if quotations from primary sources are grounds for punishment. Any curtailing of documentary evidence leads not to peace in the community but to the preordained failure to learn from history. It eventually allows the tragedies of the past to be repeated anew.