Just opinions Gnome? How about far better informed and far better researched opinions by people who have made a life's work out of studying and researching that period of history? Still reckon your opinion (remembering of course that you yourself have admitted that you know nothing about it) should be considered compared to theirs? Do you ignore all the facts that they bring to the argument upon which they have based their conclusions? If that is not ignoring fact then nothing is - it also by the way flies in the face of logic and reason.