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June 6, 2005
Impact of NOW
With Jacob ter Veldhuis' ...NOW... fresh in mind I had a recall of an experience a couple of years ago. I was doing some research in a German archive. The material I was looking for had its origin in the early to late 1930s.
Since the research was rather technical (it had something to do with early aviation) I somehow thought my research was neutral from a political standpoint.
I was wrong. Within the material I was researching I came across letters from Nazi hotshots. I felt history's claw on my shoulder and a shiver down my spine when I saw the sincerity of these letters and the way they were signed: H.H.
Until then, the black page of our recent history wasn't something I knew from books, films and stories. At that particular moment, I had a tiny part of history in my hands.
Our history is NOW as is our future.
Posted by Renske at June 6, 2005 7:34 PM | permanent link