Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on "I made a MISTAKE with Stalingrad (okay, a few)" video.
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TIK, some people climb Mount Everest - it's difficult, dangerous, expensive, and often
fatal. Why do people do that: simply to be able to say they did it? Seems pointless to me.
Now then, you're halfway up a figurative Mount Everest, and it's undoubtedly been difficult, expensive, and so on. You're probably asking yourself what are you doing, and what is the point. What you are doing is amassing, collating, evaluating and presenting the collective knowledge of an important part of history in an accessible way: a way that aids the further study of those events.
And what is the point of that? Well, what is the over-all lesson of World War II? I'd suggest it this: if you devote the whole of your resources to destroying your neighbours, you will most likely destroy yourself. (That's open to debate, obviously. ;)
So, then, had Hitler watched your videos, and seen the ultimate futility of the course he set himself - and his nation - perhaps he might've been dissuaded from that plan. Had Hitler stopped at Poland - as tragic as that would've been - it might've saved 30-40 million lives and 3 or 4 years of war in a dozen different nations.
By telling the stories of the monstrous stupidities of the past, you're helping to prevent them from happening again - and that's worth doing!
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