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"Forging the Collective memory. Government and International Historians through Two World Wars". Edited by Keith Wilson. Published by Berghahn Books Providence (Rhode Island USA) and Oxford, 1996. ISBN 1-57181-862-6. Chapter 4, by Hermann Witgens, examinations the case of US Senator Robert l. Owen. He made a major revisionist speech in the Senate in December 1923 which was widely distributed by the Germans and campaigned thereafter for a full official investigation into the matter. Eventually ordered in February 1925, it was headed by Charles Tansill, long a revisionist, who was an adviser to the Senate and was employed by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, the body charged with the enquiry. In spite of/because of German assistance to Tansill, the report was never published being found not to be impartial. A later book by Owen "The Russian Imperial Conspiracy" though superficial, was again distributed with German help. They bought 1500 copies for Owen to distribute. A Senator Hendrick Shipstead took over where Owen left off but did not impress the Senate. The Germans themselves were never sure whether their campaign had had any lasting effect on American popular opinion.
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Main reason for my research was the support for the boshevikians in the russian revolution 1917 from western groups. Is this possible? Look at Anthony Sutton. He maintains, that this was fact. For what reason? You can only understand if you take a group which uses the hegelian way of synthesis for real. In Russia they fear a anti-reign socialism, and for this they had to support the Bolsheviki like Lenin and Trotzki. So they built a reign-alternative. And controll it??
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