cc @r3dmotovilov i think i have now joined u in this elite club

(from ch6, p.242) “in order to avoid dark clouds spoiling his apologia, he proceeds to a tacit temporal amputation of the history of Western colonialism.... Ferguson certainly stresses on several occasions that Germany cannot but be regarded as an integral part of the West. But when he celebrates the political and moral superiority of the ‘West’ over the ‘Rest’, he seems to forget that Hitler’s Germany was an integral part of the ‘West’, not the ‘Rest’.”