I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekanino show.

I'm back here with Thomas.

It's been a little while.

How are you doing?

I'm right.

I was quite ill for a spell that owes to my absence owes to that as well as, you know,

my not dropping content, a particularly timely manner but I

think I'm out of the woods okay I mean I got to be I'm going to the Veter

conference this weekend but I appreciate you hosting me and as always what I

want you to get into today and of course you're the boss of this program I want to get into what I want to get into today, and of course, you're the boss of this program.

I want to discuss how there's a nascent sort of revisionist.

There's a nascent tolerance for a revisionist scholarship about Adolf Hitler, okay, that I think is undeniable.

I'm talking about, you know, in corridors where that was not tolerated whatsoever,

you know, even a decade or a decade and a half ago.

And it's very interesting.

It owes to a lot of factors.

That owes to the Second World War truly fading from living memory.

You know, it owes to the kind of democratization of university resources.

It owes to, you know, the, the complete and total absence of a bully pulpit that academia,

in, you know, in conjunction with media used to enjoy and, you know, facilitated a really kind of complete and total capability

to dominate the conceptual landscape, you know, not just enforce, you know,

strictures on what's considered to be an acceptable opinion, but quite literally

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