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From: Dietrich Herrmann (herrmann@RCS.URZ.TU-DRESDEN.DE)
List Editor: H-German Editor Steve Remy <remy.21@osu.edu>
Editor's Subject: QUERY: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht
Author's Subject: QUERY: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht
Date Written: August 10, 2000
Date Posted: Fri, 10 Aug 2000 08:23:53 -0400

Helmut Schulze's question from while ago relating to a reliable and
"impartial" source on the conflict on the exhibition "Verbrechen der
Wehrmacht" is a very good one. "Good question," that means it is obviously
very hard to answer.

Just some additional information on Joerg Boettger's reply and a comment of
my own:

I do not know anything of the internals of the Institut fuer
Zeitgeschichte, neither do I want to generalize from the director to all
researchers of the institute. One should add, however, that IfZ's current
director Horst Moeller has always been one of the most outspoken critics of
the Wehrmacht exhibition in Germany. He has very recently been part of a
controversy relating to his giving a speech in honor of Ernst Nolte.

Again, it will be impossible to find someone "disinterested" in Germany.
Anyone claiming to do his research "sine ira et studio" on the Wehrmacht is
neglecting and sometimes even dismissing on purpose the fact that this
topic is (and for the foreseeable future will be) a political one in
Germany - and not just here.

That leaves me with the advice to Helmut Schulze and others: Read studies
from different scholars and make your own judgment.

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