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Thread #164112   Message #3924554
Posted By: GUEST,Observer
15-May-18 - 03:26 AM
Thread Name: How reliable is Folk History ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How reliable is Folk History ?
Rich-joy

This from "Hidden Histories"

Lies concocted in 1914 to blacken Germany in every way are still circulated today as fact. This False History lives on through the British Court Historians1 who repeat the nonsense. We prove absolutely that while Nurse Edith Cavell – the great British heroine of the war who was executed by a German firing squad in Belgium in 1915 – was indeed a brave patriot, she was secretly and intimately associated with a Belgian spy ring 2 linked to the British Secret Service. Edith Cavell and her Belgian associates helped repatriate hundreds of British and French soldiers who were stranded behind enemy lines in the first months of the war. They also passed vital information about German deployment to the War Office in London 3. But Edith threatened to endanger the secret agreements about food supply by revealing the scandal through he connections with the Times 4. For generations that fact was buried so that her execution would look like an act of brutality by the German commanders against an innocent, humanitarian nurse. The truth is otherwise.

1: What is a British Court Historian?
2: Obviously she was in touch with Belgians resisting the German occupation of their country - she's helping people escape from the Germans.
3: The Belgian spy ring might well have done this, it would come with the job description, but Nurse Edith Cavell would have had little input, working as she did in a hospital far removed from the front line.
4: Secret agreements about food supply by revealing the scandal? Taking your tip and thinking and questioning further causes to ponder exactly what would a 49 year nurse working in a clinic in Brussels would know about any agreement, secret or otherwise about food supply that would be likely to cause any scandal. Her connections with "The Times"? Rather difficult for her doncha think. By all means think and question.