Comments on: The Story of a Soldier’s Life https://www.isegoria.net/2011/09/the-story-of-a-soldiers-life/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Doctor Pat https://www.isegoria.net/2011/09/the-story-of-a-soldiers-life/comment-page-1/#comment-352417 Doctor Pat Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:13:19 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26326#comment-352417 Wolsely sounds very much like a real world version of the George MacDonald Fraser fictional character Flashman.

Of course GMF stole the entire character from a different author, so it’s not unreasonable that the story would also be “borrowed”.

]]> By: ICR https://www.isegoria.net/2011/09/the-story-of-a-soldiers-life/comment-page-1/#comment-350734 ICR Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:56:45 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=26326#comment-350734 From my recollection of Speer’s memoirs, Himmler and Rosenberg were the ones who were into racial mythology and Hitler mocked them for that. I also recall that at least two of John Lukacs’ books dealing with Hitler tend to confirm Speer.

I think Kershaw and other have established that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was of postwar origin. In the Table Talk Hitler says that his objection to the Jews is that they are a “reservoir of Bolshevism.” The evidence of history (see Yuri Slezkine, Benjamin Ginsberg and Albert Lindemann along with the usual suspects) shows that Hitler was not entirely wrong in his characterization. That doesn’t mean that any sane person would endorse his radical solution to the problem.

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