Ernst Nolte and the Free University of Berlin

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Vaska Tumir wrote:

> Well, I'd asked for clarification about Nolte and the Free University of Berlin because -- after searching the Internet and now our list archives -- all I can find is the original piece of news, i.e. that:
> 
> "Professor Ernst Nolte of the Free University of Berlin, a world-renowned 
> authority on 19th and 20th-century intellectual history, has been dismissed 
> from his position as chief editor of Zionist theorist and organizer Theodore 
> Herzl's letters and diaries by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the West 
> German group financing the project." 
> 
> This is posted on one of the revision sites, so the language is theirs.  A couple of Izraeli historians working on the Herzl project complained about Nolte's presence on the same; the publishers agreed.  
> 
> There is no suggestion anywhere at all that Nolte, who is 77 and might at best be an emeritus at FUB, has lost his teaching position (if he still holds one).  Hardly a case of academic freedom denied. 
> 
> Vaska
> 

Puts a different face on it.

			P.