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Related: About this forumUkip's Hugh Williams Pens Non-PC World History Book, Claims Nazi Invasion Due To 'Polish Aggression'
Just when you thought Ukip had reached their nadir with Godfrey Blooms rant about bongo bongo land, Hugh Williams, the party's assistant treasurer pops up having penned a book detailing a non-PC history of the world.Within Williams self-published, 350-page tome, the 67-year-old claims that Winston Churchill admired his fellow wartime leaders Hitler and Stalin, and that the brutal Nazi invasion of Poland was a result of goading by Warsaw.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/21/ukip-hugh-williams_n_3791323.html?ref=topbar
Ah, so it was all Poland's fault. If Poland had just toned down her make up and worn a more demure length of skirt, World War Two could have been avoided all together. Glad we cleared that up.
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Ukip's Hugh Williams Pens Non-PC World History Book, Claims Nazi Invasion Due To 'Polish Aggression' (Original Post)
oldironside
Aug 2013
OP
The Nazi pre-text for the invasion was a very poorly-staged false flag operation
Anarcho-Socialist
Aug 2013
#2
The story i heard was that Polish prisoners were dressed in Polish Army uniforms
SwissTony
Mar 2014
#5
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. In a coming sequel, Williams discloses that
it really wasn't the Poles fault at all - it was the JOOZ!!!!!!
Anarcho-Socialist
(9,601 posts)2. The Nazi pre-text for the invasion was a very poorly-staged false flag operation
German troops dressed up as Poles and blew up an empty communications post.
The escapade didn't fool the international community and the "Poles started it" excuse only gets an audience in Neo-Nazi circles - which aren't the most scholarly or ethical bunch when it comes to historiography.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)3. Similar to the far right group Jacob Rees-Mogg gave a speech to
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10884512
"The Poles asked for it from 1919 onwards. It was Britain and France who made it a world war, not Hitler."
"The Poles asked for it from 1919 onwards. It was Britain and France who made it a world war, not Hitler."
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)5. The story i heard was that Polish prisoners were dressed in Polish Army uniforms
and then murdered.
Maybe a bit of both.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)4. The term for this is "blaming the victim"
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)6. Which is of course one of the main principles of the Far Right!
I've commented before, I think, that whereas most people think that one of the worst sins is to be a bully, many people on the Right think that one of the worst sins is to be a victim.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)7. It is my observation...
that when people proudly refer to something they've said or written as 'politically incorrect', it is usually also factually incorrect.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)8. Ay ay ay, what?
I need a pipe cleaner to stick into my ear. Ouch!