Monday 11 January 2010

CONTROVERSY IN HISTORY


Those who do not study history often think it is simply learning facts. But history is a dialogue with the past. It is constantly being re-interpreted, sometimes with controversial results. Film director and history revisionist Oliver Stone is courting controversy once more with his TV history series that attempts to understand Hitler the man. Should we try to get to the ‘real’ person behind the myth or can this lead to becoming an apologist for mass murder?

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