Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "How Hitler’s “Table Talks” broke history" video.

  1. "History is wrong", even when you dig up old pots from thousands of year ago (archaeologists love ancient rubbish tips). It's a negative reactionary viewpoint that not only affects historians, but venerable professions like archaeology, forensic science and geology. That is why the scientific method works and the emotive method doesn't, i.e objectivity. What people write down, under certain regimes with their own biased objectives, are important (although not vital to evidence such as Hitler's Table Talk), and often their viewpoints and language do not concur with your own. We should be not bothered by that, but what they might have said (not verbatim, but in essence), might be useful. Now we're getting to a point of stupidity matching an eight year old and a CCP official: Possibly the Second World War never happened (even though it was allegedly over just under 80 years ago) and the Roman Empire was non-existent with lot of pots under the ground with a few marble ruins (the Romans built primarily with brick, by the way). Worse, putting the pots and ruins there was the work of forgeries (very busy and unnoticed forgers, by the way, seeing the extent of the Roman Empire in three continents). But we shouldn't trust what Cicero said or what Pliny the Elder said because it was mistranslated Latin or Greek, incomplete writing (because of bits of age damaged scrolls), had been repeatedly translated to and from other languages, or these (alleged) people lived in age very different from our own.
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