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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. - Karl Kraus
Attribution: Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).

Categories: Historians, Writer

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