As the German economic historian Karl Erich Born noted in […]

While post-war Germany successfully integrated itself into the West by repudiating the dreams and delusions of the Nazi paradigm, the Russian power elite, in an act of tragic and bloody irony, has set out to subjugate Ukraine for much the same reasons that saw the Wehrmacht plunge across its own borders in 1941

There is a regrettable tendency in much Australian historical writing for authors to make judgments about the past that are really formulated out of their concern to advance a particular political agenda in the present. Such writers have fallen into the trap of depicting the past in the way they would prefer it to have been, rather than how it actually was