[Taxacom] Fate of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

[Kenneth Kinman]

Hi Michael,
        "Slips like that"?  "Get it straight"?   If you read your
history a little closer, you will find that a reluctant Hungary was
actually pressured (by Germany) into joining the Axis in 1940.  The
Hungarians were in secret peace negotiations with the United States by
1944, and when Hitler found out about it, Hungary was occupied by the
Nazis, and then hundreds of thousands of Hungarians were exterminated
(not to mention hundreds of thousands more Hungarian soldiers and
civilians killed in warfare).  They suffered mightily at the hands of
the Nazis.     
          ---------Ken  
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Michael Ivie wrote:             
Ken, we do not help our cause if we don't know what we are talking
about. Hungary did not need protection from the Nazis, they WERE the
Nazis in WWII, as a part of the Axis Powers.  That military academy
produced officers the Allies faced on the battlefield until the Red Army
stopped them in 1945. 
Slips like that diminish our arguments greatly.  If part of our argument
is clearly wrong, all of it can be dismissed.  Get it straight before
trying to interfere in affairs of a foreign country, otherwise, you look 
like --- well, sad to say -- an American. 
HOWEVER, that museum is absolutely a fantastic resource for the whole
world.  The beetle collection is among the best in the world, and has a
history of great, great systematic work that continues to this day.
Type holdings are very large, and world-wide in scope.