Comment on and link to Yale history lecture re Ukraine, Germany, Holocaust, Politics.
I have been following this excellent series of lectures by Yale historian Timothy Snyder. They've covered the history of Ukraine from Roman period up to now.
It's an excellent subject not just for understanding the current war, but also the complex and intertwined histories of Europe. These are typically understood through individual national curricula or stories (which are always written as current political tools), but as he has advocated, a general European history should really be taught in high schools across the continent.
This latest lecture looks at the post Holodomor period and Germany's motivation.
One really critical point to share is that (quote)
"Even in the Holocaust, or especially in the Holocaust, there is never a moment where politics ceases to matter. There's never a moment where you get into some sphere of pure evil or pure ethics or something where human experience and human calculations don't matter."
Personal choices about what works best for me can be pushed on to "Politics" as being responsible. And leading up to this lecture, that was alluded to throughout modern history - even now, and in many democratic countries. "It's ok if people suffer and die because the policy is worth pursuing. And the political decision is never wrong."
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Comment on and link to Yale history lecture re Ukraine, Germany, Holocaust, Politics.
I should have tagged this with #histodon apparently.
Note, I am not a historian, or scholar of history. I just find myself more and more interested in how we came to where we are now and the choices along the way, so we might learn to avoid the horrors of the past.
