Quote: (04-16-2019 05:28 PM)Sp5 Wrote:
A: I'm old enough to have talked to a lot of WW2 vets. I was stationed in Germany and talked to German WW2 vets who were captured by the Russians and by the Americans. The command sergeant major on my post was a WW2 vet.
B: There have been thousands of books written about WW2, based on testimony, official records, films. That's on one side of the scale. On the other, you have a YouTube video put out by some rando anon that has a lot of bullshit in it.
C: It's disrespect to the fallen not to look at the complete historical record and repeat this bullshit that "Hitler didn't start the war, man" or "I'm just asking questions." Fuk your questions, the record is out there, crack a few books in a library.
A: I am too. My Grandfather was one of them. He suffered 13 gunshot wounds and barely managed to survive due to lucky circumstance and being son of a Provost Marshall who knew Generals at the time, got the best medical care possible. Managed to outlive all the doctors who said he'd die in less than three years. You're not the only one.
B: There's thousands of books written on both sides. Only the sides that explore a story different than the mainstream narrative are suppressed, people who write them have their lives ruined (i.e, David Irving), and it's illlegal in most countries in Europe including Russian to question the official holocaust narrative. Why? The truth needs no defense. That you're on this forum at all means that on some level means that you at least don't trust mainstream thought on women because some, lots, or all of it is lies. Is it not conceivable that people may have lied to you about other things?
C: It's not disrespect in the slightest. Those men fought for what they thought was right. I respect that. They didn't start the war, they didn't have a hand in the political maneuvering that contributed to the factors that led to the war, or any of that. That's nearly a strawman argument. Fuck off with your emotional pathos argument type bullshit. This forum is better than that and you're better than that.
And before you go putting words into my mouth, I'll tell you what I believe.
I believe that the offical story of WW2 as we know it, is not 100% true. I don't know the percentage of true v untrue. I just know that this history is taught to us with a spin, with a crucial omission of the facts, and is often riddled with straight fabrications and lies (re: Katyn massacre and the lies that Germans made soap and lampshades out of Jewish skin/fat).
There are two statements that I have an issue with:
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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History shall be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Who's the last quote attributed to?
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