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--></style></head><body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">What next? Stop offering courses in which Hitler and Nazism is studied? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">And, what is wrong with being provocative? Indeed, it should be further encouraged.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Peter Radan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Professor Peter Radan</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Email: <a href="mailto:peter.radan@mq.edu.au">peter.radan@mq.edu.au</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au">intlawprofessors-bounces@mailman.anu.edu.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sanford Gaines<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 30 May 2012 7:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> William Slomanson<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:intlawprofessors@mailman.anu.edu.au">intlawprofessors@mailman.anu.edu.au</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IntLawProfessors] CITING HITLER?</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">One hardly need resort to Hitler--an extremely provocative move by which the nuanced message you want to convey will be totally lost--to find examples of irony, hypocrisy, and corruption of ideals in political writings and actions. As an American, an example that immediately springs to my mind would be to juxtapose the high ideals the US Declaration of Independence (the self-evident truth "that all men are created equal") with the clauses of the US Constitution just 13 years later arranging affairs of state to allow slavery. The irony and corrupting power of this contrast was resolved (at least in the narrow legal sense) only after horrific loss of life in the US Civil War, the traces of which still linger bitterly in the minds of many Americans 150 years later.</p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Sandy Gaines</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 29 May 2012, at 22:28, Gaya Davidyan wrote:</p></div><p class="MsoNormal">
<br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">I would NOT USE a text thus cites Hitler. He was a sick person and i don't think any of his ideas may be used eve for irones.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">
Gaya</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2012/5/30 William Slomanson <<a href="mailto:bills@tjsl.edu" target="_blank">bills@tjsl.edu</a>></p><p class="MsoNormal">Assume that an Int'l Law textbook cites Hitler's Mein Kampf (possibly on two occasions) as chapter-opening two-sentence vignettes/food for thought/incredible ironies. Each passage contains language that sounds like the French Revolution or American Constitution---written when he was in jail in 1924. After he came to power, he then totally disregarded his pre-Furer human rights musings. One underlying purpose would be to futher expose Hitler's hypocrisy and, as they say, to illustrate how absolute power corrupts absolutely.<br>
<br>Question #1: Would you NOT do so, if this were your textbook? Would you NOT use a text that thus cites Hitler? Would it NOT make a difference?<br><br>Question #2: Would the mere citation of Mein Kampf in that textbook bar it from being used in certain countries?<br>
<br>Thoughts?<br>Bill</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <br>Gayane Davidyan<br><br>Associate Professor<br>School of Law<br>Moscow State University<br>
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