re: #132 srb1976

Just to play devil’s advocate for a minute…While I don’t think that that sort of thinking is OK by any means… There is a very large difference between private citizens thinking that way and the State thinking that way.
It’s one thing if you have a group of people bending over backwards to try not to acknowledge the accomplishments of , and this is creepy, but not nearly as creepy as having a government decree that scholars MUST not acknowledge or cite the accomplishments of
(Realizing how much trouble I’m having typing and REALLY hoping this makes some small amount of sense)

The song of the Loreley, the ultimate Germanic romantic myth of the Rhine, was written by a German Jew, heinrich Heine.

The Nazis kept the song, just changed the author to “Annonymous”.

That is small-mided cultural cowardice.