La derrota de lo épico

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Excerpt from An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography History without Geography is incomplete and unsatisfactory. The duty of the historian is, not only to record the events of his narrative, with their causes and consequences, but to sketch the attending scenes and circumstances, so as to present a clear and living picture of tho whole. For this purpose Geography comes to the aid of History, to delineate the scenery of the historical narrative, to describe the city or country where the event recorded transpired, to depict the mountain, plain, or valley, the ocean, sea, or...

¿Se pudo prevenir el nazismo?¿Son ciertas las profecías de los libros sagrados?¿Puede el hombre ver el futuro?¿Qué curiosidades envuelven al nazismo? El paso de Hitler por Viena, la primera experiencia milagrosa que condicionó su vida, la búsqueda de la raza aria y mucho más.

Ante los conflictos y los horrores desatados por el hombre, se ha venido dando por sentada en los últimos decenios la certidumbre de que «el juicio de la historia» acaba viniendo a restituir tarde o temprano, siquiera moralmente, el justo orden de las cosas. Sin embargo, el resurgimiento en los últimos tiempos de fenómenos como los supremacismos, el hipernacionalismo, el racismo y las actualizaciones posmodernas del fascismo llevan a plantearse seriamente la validez de este aserto. Tomando tres casos paradigmáticos -el Tribunal Militar Internacional de Nuremberg de 1946, la Comisión...