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Thread #133984   Message #3599720
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
09-Feb-14 - 07:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Jim,
sixteen Christians were executed because of their religious convictions,

Not true.
No British conscientious objectors were ever executed.
Once again you are wrong and I am right.

I have only made 3 claims in this discussion, and I do not lie.

The claim that the army was well led has not been discussed on the programmes, but not one historian disputes it.

My other two claims were endorsed by the presenter, Paxman saying to camera,
"The war was dreadful, and it was bloody, but unless Britain was prepared to see the rest of Europe turned into some enormous German colony, it had to be fought, and most British people saw that" (programme1)

and,
"Most people seemed to have accepted that the war had to be fought.
To honour treaties. To defend the empire. To protect Britain.
And, what else were they supposed to do?
To sit back and watch as Germany amassed an empire from Russia to the shores of the English Channel?
Now war had broken out, almost everyone backed it.
Most trade unions suspended strikes, which had been common." (programme 1)

Musket, I do not judge by any standards.
I am informed by History.
No single Historian believes your version of events.
I suggest that is because it is bollocks.