History is written by Winners !!!

Does it not seem to be a common sense statement? How can a loser write history? How can a guy who lost the war expect people to read his memoir? Seems pretty straight forward. But, I am worried about something else. What do winners write? Are they distorting the real ‘History’ and write their own novels? Are they becoming authors who create fictional characters out of ‘Real’ lives? Are they making fun of the real ‘Heros’ who unfortunately ‘Lost’ due to other circumstances? Are today’s youth not learning the real history? Any amount of RTI will not help. Some introspection by the reader will.

Let’s start the introspection. Heard of William L Shirer? He was a winner!!! His ‘Rise and Fall of Third Reich’ has written history, sadly in his own way. In his own perspective. The Western perspective. Sadly, the whole world believes William L Shirer’s was the only authentic and definitive source for the history of Nazi Germany. First of all, can we take his findings in the face value? Who was WL Shirer? He was a journalist in CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System in the US, the winner of the WW2. And what do you expect CBS to broadcast in the US during the war? Hitler, an able administrator? Hitler, the saviour of the world? BullShit. Might be Americans can feel proud of the work of WL Shirer. But, why should we take it in the face value? Does this one point, of being in CBS, not speak volumes about the one sided coverage of the story? Can I conclude that the present day Nazi History is not the absolute one? Let’s atleast try to see the other side of the coin. Let’s not get americanised in thoughts, blood and flesh. What does Mein Kampf talk about? The title gets translated to ‘My Struggle’. The western media who are the authors of today’s History have succeeded in brainwashing people and making them believe that the Nazi Party was a group of Barbarians. Talk about Hitler and the first word is Holocaust. With due respect to Jews, I just have a reason that the Holocaust is not a ‘cause’ but an ‘effect’ to something in the history which the western world has successfully buried. Mein Kampf brings into picture and clarifies that the ‘Rise of Third Reich’ was due to the bloody things that happened in Germany after it lost the First World War. Sadly, there were no books written on the subject of Germany aftermath WW1.

Now, consider this. What if ‘The Allies’ had lost WW2? What if Germany had walked over Europe and Russia? What if the CBS was itself a history during the war? Would not have WL Shirer been another Tom or Dick or Harry, in the country side? Would not the world war’s only testimony be Mein Kampf? Would not the US and the Britain be taught to the youth of 20th century as wicked? Yes. And this proves a point. Even though there has been a lot of criticism on WL Shirer’s work, the US is again successful in silencing critics by sheer power. And we all know, what happened in Guantnamo and Abu Ghraib.

Atlast, My two paise – History is not what actually happened in the past. It’s what winners wrote!!! And wrote wrong.