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Opinion From the Last Post at the Lost Past The unknown German story of 1914-1918 Saturday, 10 November 2012 Author: Benedict Wydooghe comment 62 17 Like

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In exactly two years, an avalanche of commemorations of the First World War will be poured upon us. Let us not forget that the past always selective viewing, say BENEDICT Wydooghe and DOMINIQUE NUYTTENS. We are commanded to remember what is most convenient.
Some time ago visited a dozen students from the town of Die Hochschule Merseburg, in the former East Germany, the Catholic college in Kortrijk. Merseburg, an industrial city with nearly

as many inhabitants as Courtrai, on his return demographic. Once it was different. At the beginning of the 20th century it was one of the most modern chemical sites. Now the depopulation leads to deforestation.
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You hear it, this is about awareness. Historical awareness. It is often a pedantic, some snobbish notion that make a distinction between who holds them and who is not, between developed and undeveloped.
As the East Germans x men first class watch online the war forgotten, keep the British cemeteries and the Last Post hitherto attached to the war - though that selective. Remember them, but they forget. They schooling, but they also ignore. One building is flooded, another languishes.
In short, x men first class watch online the re-thinking tells more about the present than about then, it tells more about it then forget about memory. Why, forgotten? In Tielt, formerly German headquarters, the German students a landmark. They look the portrait of Fritz Haber. He appears to have been a famous chemist. x men first class watch online A student knows that in Merseburg a Fritz Haber's Street. Another x men first class watch online says that he won the Nobel Prize. His invention? Fertilizer. And in Tielt they know him. That creates ties.
But Haber did not travel to West Flanders for agricultural productivity to drive. The reason for his visit was a test of the yperite, x men first class watch online or mustard. That story is unknown students. Their astonishment x men first class watch online increases when explaining that he developed the gas Zyklon B, which later in some gas chambers during World War II was used. "But with the Holocaust Haber has nothing to do" says the guide. A reassurance to the students. German memories in the frontal region, you have to spy to find them. And once found, they appear loaded. Coincidence? Of course not, because x men first class watch online there is no history, unless afterwards. Colored by the winner.
We are on the eve of a new memorial boom and the memorial table is also present. The menu includes integration, tolerance and human rights x men first class watch online on a bed of contemporary conflict. Around the table: the representatives of veterans, x men first class watch online historians, heritage guild, politics and commerce. In addition, we hear loud voices: those historical awareness as a guarantee to mobilize new conflicting