That is a myth though. Probably one of the most repeated myths on the internet.
So any kind of narrative that would fit the image allied forces have over World War II is now considered ‘historical consensus’.
That is complete bullshit as well. People who write such things have no idea how academic history works. Sure governments often have a tendency to have history presented in a certain light which fits their particular political agenda, but academic history functions quite independently of those governments, especially a field such as World War II, which is huge and transnational, being written from all sorts of perspectives and contexts.
Maybe a good indicator of that is: We still know about a lot of the horrendous things the USA has done over the centuries.
We didn’t “Heroically defeat a land of savages trying to tear apart this great natural wonderland, and graciously offer them sanctuary out west.” Instead we learn about it as the Trail of Tears.
That is a myth though. Probably one of the most repeated myths on the internet.
That is complete bullshit as well. People who write such things have no idea how academic history works. Sure governments often have a tendency to have history presented in a certain light which fits their particular political agenda, but academic history functions quite independently of those governments, especially a field such as World War II, which is huge and transnational, being written from all sorts of perspectives and contexts.
Maybe a good indicator of that is: We still know about a lot of the horrendous things the USA has done over the centuries.
We didn’t “Heroically defeat a land of savages trying to tear apart this great natural wonderland, and graciously offer them sanctuary out west.” Instead we learn about it as the Trail of Tears.
OTOH a lot of USAians in southern aren’t told about those things. But yes the information is available
“History is written by the victors” feels like propaganda authoritarians would push to do things like, erase “slavery = bad” from history.