Right wing myths with an endless shelf life
I received the following from a correspondent:
"During the 1940s Tibetan volunteers formed brigades attached to the Cossack regiments fighting Communism with NS Germany. The Tibetans with their endurance of sub-zero temperatures, refusal to surrender made them among the toughest fighters against the Soviets. They were exceptional horsemen and staged some of the last cavalry charges in history. It was the remnants of these brigades that the Soviet army found in the ruins of Berlin, having fought to the last” (end quote).
Around 1980, at the request of "Bill G.," I asked Agehananda Barati (Leopold Fischer) if this story was true.
Barati/Fischer was Professor of Sanskrit and Anthropology at Syracuse University and a former member of Hitler’s “Free India Legion.” He was one of the few men alive who would be in a position to know if the rumor about Tibetans in Berlin fighting for Nazi Germany was true.
Barati/Fischer told me the story about the Tibetans was pure buncombe.
His obituary is here.
Michael Hoffman
www.revisionisthistory.org
No comments:
Post a Comment
WE DO NOT PUBLISH ANONYMOUS COMMENTS!
Your own name or a pseudonym may be freely used simply by beginning or ending your comment with your name or alias when posting your comment. Posting as Anonymous makes debate unnecessarily harder to follow. ANY COMMENT SUBMITTED SIMPLY AS ANONYMOUS WITHOUT ADDING YOUR NAME OR ALIAS AT THE BEGINNING OR END OF YOUR COMMENT WILL BE BLOCKED. Note: we appreciate submissions from people who do not hide behind anonymity, as do many trolls. Anonymous, unsigned comments have a high likelihood of being blocked.
Do not assume that ON THE CONTRARY necessarily agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand.
By clicking on the publish your comment button, be aware that you are choosing to make your comment public - that is, the comment box is not to be used for private and confidential correspondence with contributors and moderators.