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[+] -15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

History is written by the victors. So any kind of narrative that would fit the image allied forces have over World War II is now considered 'historical consensus'.

That said, Hitler was a fascist who used leftist signal words to appeal to people who weren't doing well financially.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago

    History is written by the victors. So any kind of narrative that would fit the image allied forces have over World War II is now considered 'historical consensus'.

    They have historians in the loser countries too.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

    History is written by the victors.

    That is a myth though. Probably one of the most repeated myths on the internet.

    So any kind of narrative that would fit the image allied forces have over World War II is now considered ‘historical consensus’.

    That is complete bullshit as well. People who write such things have no idea how academic history works. Sure governments often have a tendency to have history presented in a certain light which fits their particular political agenda, but academic history functions quite independently of those governments, especially a field such as World War II, which is huge and transnational, being written from all sorts of perspectives and contexts.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Maybe a good indicator of that is: We still know about a lot of the horrendous things the USA has done over the centuries.

    We didn’t “Heroically defeat a land of savages trying to tear apart this great natural wonderland, and graciously offer them sanctuary out west.” Instead we learn about it as the Trail of Tears.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago

    So any kind of narrative that would fit the image allied forces have over World War II is now considered 'historical consensus'.

    If that were true they would have branded it as communism during the red scare.

    History is written by whoever happens to write it down and historians interpret that in context of other sources and the author's likely biases.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    So you're like just a Nazi?

    The West and Soviet Union would both agree that Hitler was in no way socialist. If you find yourself that opposed to both sides of the allies that leaves very few political alignments that aren't fascism.

    Sure you say Hitler was a fascist too, but I can see no other motivations to try and disagree with the post's statement of the facts.

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