from http://www.newstatesman.com/200005150035
So Richard Gott, with his unerring progressive instincts, chooses the moment when Robert Mugabe’s thugs are killing white farmers (and oppositionists generally) to tell us that, because of the crimes of their forefathers, these people should have got out of Zimbabwe. Since the Nazi Reich forms such a seminal part of his historical perspective, Gott will no doubt appreciate that there were German writers, at the time of Kristallnacht, eager to provide historical perspective on the crimes of the privileged Jewish minority.
Martin Shaw
Professor in International Relations & Politics,
University of Sussex
Martin Shaw 