Revisionist history being taught in Europe?

TheSatyr · 03-16-07, 04:06 PM

As some one who goes to multiple wargame sites I'm seeing more and more Europeans downplaying the USA's role in WW2.

They say things like "The USA's role in WW2 was minor and the USSR would have won the war on it's own".(Probably true,but the war would have gone on longer...and more countries would have been under the Communists thumbs when it was over.). Or,"The Pacific Theater was unimportant".(even though the Pacific War was the final nail in the coffin of European Colonialism in that region...except for a few exceptions like Hong Kong and Shanghai).

Another thing I'm seeing is a growing call for more WW2 games without any USA involvement.

Maybe I'm just seeing things that aren't there,but to me there seems to be an ongoing effort in Europe to downplay the USA's accomplishments in WW2.

A case in point being when SH4 was announced. A number of Europeans on the board immediately started complaining that it was going to be a sim of US subs,instead of it being what they wanted...which was yet another U-Boat sim. All the while claiming that the US boats didn't deserve having a game based on them because "they didn't do anything during the war" Losing 52 boats,sinking a large number of Japanese warships and destroying over half of what was the 3rd largest merchant fleet at the beginning of the war being "not doing anything" I guess.

I guess I'm just tired of seeing my Country's past accomplishments put down,denigrated and downplayed and the memory of our dead being insulted both in the PTO and the ETO just because of the world's views of the present administration. I've reached the point where I feel that if there is ever another war in Europe that the USA should just stay the hell out of it and let the Europeans kill each other all they want.

03-16-07, 04:06 PM	#1
TheSatyr Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 545 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Revisionist history being taught in Europe? As some one who goes to multiple wargame sites I'm seeing more and more Europeans downplaying the USA's role in WW2. They say things like "The USA's role in WW2 was minor and the USSR would have won the war on it's own".(Probably true,but the war would have gone on longer...and more countries would have been under the Communists thumbs when it was over.). Or,"The Pacific Theater was unimportant".(even though the Pacific War was the final nail in the coffin of European Colonialism in that region...except for a few exceptions like Hong Kong and Shanghai). Another thing I'm seeing is a growing call for more WW2 games without any USA involvement. Maybe I'm just seeing things that aren't there,but to me there seems to be an ongoing effort in Europe to downplay the USA's accomplishments in WW2. A case in point being when SH4 was announced. A number of Europeans on the board immediately started complaining that it was going to be a sim of US subs,instead of it being what they wanted...which was yet another U-Boat sim. All the while claiming that the US boats didn't deserve having a game based on them because "they didn't do anything during the war" Losing 52 boats,sinking a large number of Japanese warships and destroying over half of what was the 3rd largest merchant fleet at the beginning of the war being "not doing anything" I guess. I guess I'm just tired of seeing my Country's past accomplishments put down,denigrated and downplayed and the memory of our dead being insulted both in the PTO and the ETO just because of the world's views of the present administration. I've reached the point where I feel that if there is ever another war in Europe that the USA should just stay the hell out of it and let the Europeans kill each other all they want.