Tuesday, March 06, 2007
FAKE BUT TRUE (CONTINUED)
Following exposure of leftist historian Manning Clark’s lie about witnessing Kristallnacht’s immediate aftermath, here’s crikey.com.au (no link):
While the controversy sparked by biographer Mark McKenna’s revelation of Clark’s imperfect recollections of the 1938 Kristallnacht will confirm in some the deep sense that Clark was flawed, emotive and capable of manipulating facts to suit a broader agenda, it will confirm for others that the important story is the broad sweep of history in which events deprived of context and consequence tell only a fraction of the full story.
‘’I saw the fruits of evil, of human evil on the streets,’’ Clark said in 1987. His recall was accurate, even if he wasn’t there to see it first hand.
Via Peter W. And a letter to the SMH from Michael Stanbridge:
The date of Manning Clark’s arrival in Germany would have made little or no difference to the influence Kristallnacht would have had upon him.
The horrors of Kristallnacht would have still been apparent and so would the mood of the Germans. The essence of Clark’s work remains and it does nothing to diminish his efforts that a bit of poetic licence may have been used to build a persona that made him more appealing in the eyes of the public.
Leftoids love liars.