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Thread #158817   Message #3762040
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
31-Dec-15 - 12:38 PM
Thread Name: History and mythology of WW1
Subject: RE: History and mythology of WW1
Jim,
"Only if there findings have been contradicted in the light of later knowledge."
And nobody has here Keith, but you have written all of them off without exception


No.
I say that historians agree my three points.
I say that previous work that did not agree has been shown to be wrong.

Your Margaret McMillan out of context quotes are totally meaningless, as are all you other out-of-context ones.

The whole piece was provided.
That IS the context it was in!

You have claimed throughout that Historians back you up on Germany's blame fro starting the war - McMillan doesn't support that view by any means

I made no such claim.
I have never argued about blame for starting the war, just for invading Belgium and France, but in that interview she states,

"I'd assign more responsibility (for the war), rather than blame, in the end to German policy and to the policy of Austria-Hungary. - See more at: http://83.223.124.158/derbyshire/judgement-and-understanding-margaret-macmillan-on-the-first-world-war/#.VoVmcvmLSt8"