Is it not sad, I said to my countrymen, that we have to learn from a foreigner about ourselves? Thanks to the German scholars we get accurate information about ourselves, and when everything in our country has been destroyed and we wish to verify the historical correctness of certain facts we shall have to come to Germany to search for these facts, in German museums and books!
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- It is sad that locals must rely on foreigners to learn their own history.
- In plain terms
- We have to learn from others about ourselves because our history was destroyed.
- What can you take from it?
- Preserve local history so others know their own past.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Whose history is lost?
- Who controls historical truth?
Another view
Foreign scholarship can also provide objectivity.
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