Talk:Hanns Johst
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[edit] Kampfbund
Note that the the translation "Militant League" is standard for for this organisation. Literal minded word-for-word translation is often misleading because of the different connotations of words and combinations of words in other languages. Google clearly shows a far greater number of hits for Militant League [1] than for Battle League [2], even ignoring the Wikipedia ones, because it includes scholarly publications e.g [3] Even The German Quarterly translates it as Militant League. See Susan Russell on "Theatre in the Third Reich, the Prewar Years: Essays on Theatre in Nazi Germany" by Glen W. Gadberry, The German Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Summer, 1997), pp. 313-314 Paul B 17:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Google shows twice as many hits for kampfbund battle league than for kampfbund militant league. What keywords did you use in your search? The first combination gives me 316 hits in google. Your combination gives me 165 hits. I'm not entering an edit war, so I'm looking forward to your keywords. Dylansmrjones 17:32, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- BTW: German Quarterly is like referring to Popular Science. So no credit there. Dylansmrjones 17:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
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- It's about the organisation, not the term Kampfbund in itself. I used "Battle League for German Culture" and "Militant League for German Culture", as the links I provided already indicate. I've no idea what you mean about the German Quarterly. It's an article on Theatre in the third reich, referring to Rosenberg's organisation. It has nothing to do with 'popular science'. If you are just sneering at the German Quarterly, which is an entirely respectable journal, such comments are really not helpful. Paul B 17:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Browning
Is the "Browning" quote a reference to Robert Browning (rather a good joke if it is!)? Does anyone have any clues?Cutler (talk) 12:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
- Of course he's referring to a Browning pistol, probably the FN Model 1910, which was the actual gun used to assassinate Franz Ferdinand and thus start WW1. It has been suggested that there is a punning reference to Robert Browning in there, who was quite well known in Germany, but as far as I know Johst never confirmed this. Paul B (talk) 13:02, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
