Re: Excerpts from Aryan Idols by Stefan Arvidsson (2006)
From: mkelkar2003
Message: 46303
Date: 2006-10-09
"Most notable is perhaps that no one reacted to the fact that the
editor of the world-leading journal for research on the
Indo-Europeans, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Roger Pearson, had
since the 1950's has been "one of America's foremost Nazi apologists
and quite clearly a racist with one of the world's best web of
contacts." Before Pearson, along with Marija Gimbutas , Edgar C.
Polome' and Raimo Antilla, founded the Journal of Indo-European
Studies, he had worked with Hans F. K. Gunther, who had continued to
spread his racial doctrines after the fall of the Third Reich.
Pearson was also chairman of the American Division of the World Anti
Communist League and lobbied in Washington for more funds for the
Defense, the Contras, and the UNITA guerillas. Together with Polome',
one of the United States' leading researchers in the area of Germanic
religion, he has also published the academic, racist journal the
Mankind Quarterly (Arvidsson 2006, p. 304)."
Arvidsson, Stefan (2006), Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as
Ideology and Science, translated by Sonia Wichmann, Chicago and
London: The University of Chicago Press.