Hitler would've won the war if. . .

Type XXIII · 03-27-06, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by joea

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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

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Originally Posted by Type XXIII

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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

All evil is at some point or another doomed to failure.

History shows us that good always wins eventually because it is the victorious who write history. :hmm:

An overly repeated quote which is gibberish.

Yes agree again. Real history is written by academics who go into archives and do hard research anyway, not by subsimmer geeks on the net.

(Including yours truly, even if I got a MA in history).

First of all, that exact quote can't be overly repeated, since I made it up. :P Of course, others have said the same thing with different words before me.

Secondly, it is not gibberish. Even if those academics are doing the hard research, it is their perceptions of history that is accepted as history. And those perceptions is influenced by their idea of 'good' and 'bad', and by those archives that you mention, which is the documents that have survived, and, in many cases, are written by the victorious.

I'm not saying that historians are making up or concealing events, but that their interpretations of those events are necessarily based on the historioans' personal experiences. History is a soft science, and nothing can be proven beyond all doubt.