Diversiteit – het lijkt een nieuw toverwoord. Eurocommissaris (en PvdA-coryfee) Frans Timmermans verklaarde op Junckeriaanse wijze dat men ‘divers zal zijn’ of ‘niet zal zijn’. Als alternatief noemde hij ‘oorlog’.

Het zijn apocalyptische woorden. Wat betekenen ze en is er überhaupt een onomstreden definitie van diversiteit? Waar komt dit diversiteits-denken plots vandaan? Is het nuttig? Over welke soort diversiteit gaat het? Elke soort? Dat kan nauwelijks de bedoeling zijn –...

There are several biographies about Erich Ludendorff. What most of them have in common is that they stop at the year 1918, the end of the First World War. This is un-justified. At the peak of his long career, between 1915 and roughly 1925, Ludendorff developed into the strongest man on the ‘right’. Thus, the years after the war were also of great importance. He was not only an important general who, with Paul von Hin-denburg, was in supreme command of Germany’s de facto military leaders...

About 1 million inhabitants of the Soviet Union collaborated with the Nazis. This is a remarkable fact, because the Nazis, thanks to their racial policy, could not really be considered allies. And yet it happened. The aversion to Bolshevism and the hope for new freedom opened up a horizon in which collaboration between the Soviet peoples and the Germans seemed to offer a better alternative than the ‘Soviet paradise’. Historical oppression and bloody experiences played a major role in this...