pcr herein speaks many truths i'm sure won't be easy for the true believers to even read let alone accept;
The Lies About World War II
Paul Craig Roberts
In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for it. Historians
on the winning side are constrained by years of war propaganda that
demonized the enemy while obscuring the crimes of the righteous victors. People
want to enjoy and feel good about their victory, not learn that their
side was responsible for the war or that the war could have been avoided
except for the hidden agendas of their own leaders. Historians are also
constrained by the unavailability of information. To hide mistakes,
corruption, and crimes, governments lock up documents for decades. Memoirs of participants are not yet written. Diaries are lost or withheld from fear of retribution. It
is expensive and time consuming to locate witnesses, especially those
on the losing side, and to convince them to answer questions. Any
account that challenges the “happy account” requires a great deal of
confirmation from official documents, interviews, letters, diaries, and
memoirs, and even that won’t be enough. For
the history of World War II in Europe, these documents can be spread
from New Zealand and Australia across Canada and the US through Great
Britain and Europe and into Russia. A
historian on the track of the truth faces long years of strenuous
investigation and development of the acumen to judge and assimilate the
evidence he uncovers into a truthful picture of what transpired. The
truth is always immensely different from the victor’s war propaganda.
As I reported recently, Harry Elmer Barnes was the first American
historian to provide a history of the first world war that was based on
primary sources. His truthful account differed so substantially from the war propaganda that he was called every name in the book. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/09/the-lies-that-form-our-consciousness-and-false-historical-awareness/
Truth is seldom welcomed. David
Irving, without any doubt the best historian of the European part of
World War II, learned at his great expense that challenging myths does
not go unpunished. Nevertheless,
Irving persevered. If you want to escape from the lies about World War
II that still direct our disastrous course, you only need to study two
books by David Irving: Hitler’s War and the first volume of his Churchill biography, Churchill’s War: The Struggle for Power ........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/13/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/
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