{"id":6312,"date":"2019-08-03T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2022-04-16T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:04:31","slug":"6312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=6312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Nazism, the historian faces a phenomenon that leaves him no way but rejection, what\u00adever his individual position. There is literally no voice worth considering that disagrees on this matter. . . . Does not such fundamental rejection imply a fundamental lack of understanding? And if we do not understand, how can we write history? The term \u201cunder\u00adstanding\u201d has, certainly, an ambivalent meaning; we can reject and still \u201cunder\u00adstand\u201d. And yet, our intellectual, and psychological, capacities reach, in the case of Nazism, a border undreamed of by Wilhelm Dilthey. We can work out explanatory theories, but, if we face the facts directly, all explanations appear weak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Wolfgang Sauer, \u2018National Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism?\u2019, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">AHR 73 (1967\u20138)<\/span>, p. 408, in Ian Kershaw, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><em>The Nazi Dictatorship<\/em><\/span>, (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 19.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nazism, the historian faces a phenomenon that leaves him no way but rejection, what\u00adever his individual position. There is literally no voice worth considering that disagrees on this matter. . . . Does not such fundamental rejection imply a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=6312\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}