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Band. Fans. Friends. Music
0Black clothing, backcombed hair, belts, doom music, berry jenever. The new-wave (or post-punk) culture of the eighties is revived. Learn about an impressive cultural phenomenon or reminisce about your own past.
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Eyewitness to the war in Hungary
0Historical guiding principles: Leopold von Ranke’s advice, chronicle the past “as it really happened,” has been faithfully followed in this brief memoir based upon my personal observation. The author is mindful of Baruch Spinoza’s plea, “ridicule not, bewail not, nor scorn human actions, but understand them.”
Historical observations: The task of preventing germane historical information from slipping through my fingers has been my decisive incentive for leaving this brief autobiographical record behind, based upon my youthful eyewitness observations made in the war-weary Hungarian city of Debrecen during the years of 1943-1945.
But there has been another helpful motivation at work as well, prompted by a quote of Northrop Frye: “… Underneath all the complexity of human life” we uneasily “stare at an alien nature still haunting us,” and ponder of the “problem of surmounting it….” So lending a modest hand to the slow and incremental process of human self-understanding has also entered my mind.
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The Formidable “Arpad Line” of Hungary, 1944
0Historical guiding principles: Leopold von Ranke’s advice, chronicle the past “as it really happened,” is faithfully followed in this rare English language historical treatment of the formidable Árpád Line. The author is mindful of Baruch Spinoza’s plea, “ridicule not, bewail not, nor scorn human actions, but understand them.” Rationality pleads for heeding Albert Einstein’s observation: “Morality is of the highest importance… for our very existence depends on it.”