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Forrest's legacy in the postwar South

Started by Lettow77, May 17, 2015, 07:40:11 AM

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Lettow77

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 The source seems a little dubious, being a spoken informal account in 1933, but do you have any particular reason for saying it's a fraud?

Edit: Nevermind, did a bit of digging myself and it is indeed very dubious
It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

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Quote from: Lettow77 on May 17, 2015, 03:15:36 PM
The source seems a little dubious, being a spoken informal account in 1933, but do you have any particular reason for saying it's a fraud?

Yes.  The publisher conceded years later that it was a fraud, and the author told his friends that he had been found out.

Not that much of what Rauschning wrote was impossible to imagine Hitler saying, and not that I don't support the idea of some charity-publishing of a work of an anti-Nazi who had to flee Germany, but the idea that Rauschning met Hitler hundreds of times and learned his innermost secrets from his own lips (and then wrote it down verbatim hours later) isn't plausible. 
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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