24-05-2010, 08:24 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:I regard 'Conjuring Hitler' as a seminal work on the origins of WWII and the Anglo-American Imperial Project. Read it and all those strange hard to place bits simply fall into place and the picture it paint bears no relationship to the official one.
It should be required reading for O-A level students as an antidote to the de-rigeur Churchill hero worship of the Establishment. In truth the man was no better than Adolph himself; it's just that 'History is being kind to him, because he - with malice aforethought - he wrote it.
A proposal, modest, if not necessarily Swiftian, Pete.
We should cobble together some nonsense cover story - we're a Swedish Coptic evangelical sect of positively catholic intellectual tastes, that sort of guff - and proceed to persuade the cove Gove, our esteemed Secretary for Education, to fund our establishment of a school dedicated to "conspiracy theory" history (ie tomorrow's truth).
After a morning's Preparata, a lunchtime with Father Gerard, and an afternoon dedicated to the finer points of match-fixing for geopolitical ends, we would offer after-school clubs dedicated to financial embezzlement for poor people, tax-avoidance for the middle incomer, and buying political parties for the principled.
We'd last about a week, but by God, we'd have some fun, not least with the compulsory course, Churchill was a Shit.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche