The question of the day is whether we’re learning history in schools or is the history that we are being taught really fantasy?
Now why would I write this in my blog?
I was taught that one of Napoleon‘s generals asked him what would history say about us? Napoleon's answer was the victor writes the history story. Later this quote was attributed to Hitler, theI read that Winston Churchill was the one who stated that history is written by the victor.
In my mind who ever said it is irrelevant but that this statement has a lot of truth to it. Even the telling of who stated that history is written by the victor can indicate falsehood.
It’s been reported by many historians that Columbus tortured the docile natives on Hispaniola, but there are reports that the Caribs, other natives who lived in that area were the one doing the torturing and Columbus’s men help the natives of Hispaniola.
It was reported that in the journals of Pizarro’s men that natives of the area that was slaves to the Aztecs showed Pizarro and his men the secret to get into the pyramids of the Aztecs. Now there are many historians who deny this report. Perhaps these historians are self serving.
Getting into a more modern time, the Russians have one version of WWII, the Western allies have an other, and the difference members of the axis have other versions.
All these versions that aren’t the same can’t be true. Some of them most be fantasy if not all of them, being clouded by tge prejudices of who’s telling the story.
History was pretty much my favorite and possibly my best subject in school, but delving into it I began to wonder how much is true,
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There are several historians ( I think,) on U Tube that I enjoy and follow. I wonder to myself what they are saying is real and what have they got wrong in there telling.
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