La reconstrucción histórica en el "Revisionismo" de David Irving
Beyond the main theses of the so called "revisionism", this essay considers the specific nature of historical knowledge. Are all interpretations of an historic fact valid? In those cases, are we talking about "a different reading", in other words, an "alternative version&...
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| Sumario: | Beyond the main theses of the so called "revisionism", this essay considers the
specific nature of historical knowledge. Are all interpretations of an historic fact
valid? In those cases, are we talking about "a different reading", in other words, an
"alternative version", another way to weigh the given data? How can we know if we
are confronted by a deliberate misinterpretation or forgery of the evidence? Can we
detect if a biased argumentation is dishonest? "Historic revisionism" has defined
itself as a historiographic current that presents a different vision of Hitler and his
regime. About twenty authors, beginning in the 1940s, adscribe to this school, and
sorne of them have developed a continous activity, getting considerable echo in the
media. This is the case of David Irving. Author of more than thirty books, articles, conferences and speeches dealing with the Third Reich, he has invested long years
of his life researching and studying German archives. But far from producing a new
historiographic approach of Nazism, David Irving's "revisionism" is overburdened
with politics and ideology, and his methods include forgery and the intentional
distorsion of the historical record. |
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