history sometimes causes more trouble than its worth. i love history mind you, but i often times find myself stoping in mid thought and having to force myself to relize that what looks so obvious in hind sight through the TV screen or a Book isnt at ALL what was obvious to the people who lived during those times.
we look back now and say this 'evil germans' but we didnt live IN germany pre/during/post world wars so we cant ever REALLY know what drove them. we cant look back and say America was a nation of heros because we cant really know what drove our OWN people. sure those WWII vets are treated with the full brunt of civic pride we give to all of our military but how many of them were at the TIME they served real heros? or rather is it that time/history has made them so?
100 years from now how will 'history' view US? what will be obvious to the future generations that we cant see now?
add this to the fact that most average people wouldnt know real history if it bit them in the ass than as i said before its often more trouble than its worth. better too have NO information than the WRONG information.
the person above that said Poland was weak and easy pray for Germany clearly doesnt understand the actual facts of History. poland wasnt weak, in truth they were for the time pretty strong and were the key to allied powers eastern front should a new war with germany come about. they were allmost as strong as France in fact. AND during the inter-war years they were quite agressive as well, fighting wars with both germany and russia. the truth is that poland wasnt weak, its that Germany had developed a whole new way to wage war. if Germany had used the same weapons and tactics that the allied powers started out using than in no way would poland have been crushed and in all probibility would have held the eastern front while the other allies finished germany off from the west and south.
put another way ......... poland was actualy a pretty good knife fighter in a world full of knife fights, they just got stomped because germany brought a gun to a knife fight instead.
off the top of my head though i cant recall oen instiance of watching any TV based history shows that mention this fact. most of the WWII history documentarys i see all but point and laugh at poland, but this isnt history this is entertainment and no matter how serious a 'history show' trys to take itself you cant put years of actual history and motivations of millions of people into a 1 hr long show.
ive read literaly hundereds of books on WWII, WWI, and the Victorian era of european history, im quite well educated on the entire time frame and i often laugh at how stupid some of the 'history' shows are, and just how wrong they can be in what they present AND how ignorant in the literal sense. meaning that its obvious that the shows producers put damn near NO work into presenting the truth and left taht too a 30 second blurb from waht ever flavor of 'expert of the week' they can shoe-horn in between pictures of tanks runing over shit and planes droping bombs, or nazi's marching past hitler.
truth is our picture of 'history' especialy WWII era history is more made up than anything close to what the reality was. the mostly get the facts right, but the frame work they present those facts within is mostly very very wrong.
