That Unity Mitford was a devoted Hitler groupie is not even close to a revelation, but it is difficult to regard her as a serious political acolyte. She never reveals what Hitler said, never contemplates his thoughts. Reading her diary in isolation, one is tempted to compare it to the besotted outpourings of a teenage Taylor Swift fan, bedewing the snowy, virgin pages with tears of love and longing. The post Unity Mitford: Her Diary, Her Fetish and Her Family appeared first on The Churchill P...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Approaching eighty, Churchill warned the House that he was about to speak in Latin, needling the opposition by hoping it would not baffle them. He duly pronounced, “Arma virumque cano” (Arms and the men sing). A Winchester-educated Labour Member asked: “Should it not be ‘man,’ the singular instead of the plural?” Churchill replied: “Little did I expect that I should receive assistance on a classical matter from such a quarter.” The post Teaching Young Winston (2): Latin, Math,...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
“Churchill was a pretty tough proposition for an organized system of education.” Yet he was not nearly the dunce of popular mythology. If only subconsciously, he stressed his school failures to suggest how far he had come. Biographers have accepted his assertions too innocently. In reality he was very good at what he wanted to learn. And he learned what mattered. The post Teaching Young Winston (1): The “Menace” of Education appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
Winston Churchill, of course, like any human, had flaws and made blunders, be it Gallipoli, the Gold Standard, the Abdication crisis, or the India Act. However, his actions in the Second World War trumped his mistakes by saving civilization from Nazi and fascist tyranny. Regardless of Mr. Cooper, this truth will always shine through in the history of mankind. The post Debunking Tucker Carlson’s Darryl Cooper Interview appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
It’s not new: There has always been an American polemic that the United States’ involvement in the Second World War was unnecessary and unwinnable. What makes this latest version interesting, and worrisome, is the way it sees Winston Churchill as a primary aggressor, instead of the nakedly genocidal, tyrannical, and racist Führer of Germany, Adolf Hitler. The post Truth About Nazi Germany and the Second World War appeared first on The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
In sum, Germany and its fascist allies started World War II, initiated the mass warring on civilians, and institutionalized genocide. They felt empowered to do so not because of Allied aggression or terrorism, but because of initial appeasement, American isolationism, and Russian collaboration. That is what enticed Hitler and the Axis into starting a war they soon had no chance of winning, once their formidable enemies embraced the prior Axis notion of total war. The post Reply to Darryl Coop...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
No, Churchill did not send fleets of firebombers to kill innocent women and children in the Schwarzwald. “The reason why this kind of nonsense passes for history is that standards for evidence have virtually disappeared. The standard is not exactly rocket science. Remnant evidence is better than tradition-creating evidence. Corroborated testimony is better than uncorroborated testimony. Forensic evidence is better than hearsay.” The post “Opium for the People”: The Myth of Firebombing...| The Churchill Project – Hillsdale College
The Zinoviev Letter caused an uproar during the 1924 British election. Churchill took advantage of it, but the hoax wasn’t his.| The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College