Secret History (iv)
Must the historians be morally neutral on the subject he or she investigates? Michael Burleigh offers a personal view.
In the course of working on the history of the Third Reich, I have interviewed a number of former Nazis. One or two of them have been relatively candid about their participation in crimes against humanity; others, academic historians in the main, have recited tales of their involvement in 'resistance', tales well-rehearsed since their perfunctory interviews with Allied 'de-Nazification' officers. Depressingly, their claims are invariably rendered implausible by huge quantities of documentary evidence.
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