The American Conservative
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An amateur historian made an assertion on a podcast that maybe Hitler wasn’t so bad after all, citing the Fuhrer ’s stated desire for peace, and suggested that perhaps it was Winston Churchill who was the villain of the entire sorry episode.
The problem with that idea is that it is not quite true, and is an effort of years of mythmaking. There are various evidences to the contrary. Churchill was indeed a warmonger.
Historiography is always normative and never objective, writes Julian Zelizer .
World will look at both the Nazis and the British Empire in very different ways in two , three , or five centuries ’ time, he says.
Zelizer: History is a matter of time and narrative, given that the world is still living amid the smoking ruins of that empire.
Ahistorical midwits fill the gap with their dumbest possible takes of Churchill and Reagan .
Attributing agency to either side is fine, but making a monocausal interpretation of the war out of that agency is a moronic endeavor.
Both the world wars were unnecessary but ultimately inevitable given the structural forces at play.
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