The Americans Are Stealing Britain's History


In addition to stealing the world's resources and the world's inventions the Americans have, for some years now, been busy trying to steal Britain's history. The Americans have very few military heroes of their own and so they steal Britain's, rewriting European history in the same way that they have rewritten the history of the West (turning the Cowboys into the heroes and the Indians into the bad guys).

One favourite claim is that it was America which saved Britain during World II. Here, for example, are the plots of one or two recent American films.

* In one film, described by the Americans as `the true story of the US commando who battled nazi troops and were aided by a group of local monks' the Greek island of Symi is liberated by Americans. In fact the liberating was done by British SAS and Special Boat Service officers working with Greek orthodox monks. American troops didn't arrive until 1946 when the war was already over.

* A film about the Normandy landings bizarrely suggested that it was an all American affair.

* A TV series showed Americans fighting their way across Europe, pretty much on their own.

* A film about British history showed the English as brutal and cruel.

* One American film claimed that the USA Navy had salvaged an enigma code machine from the Nazis. In reality this was by the British Navy.

* An American `history' film showed the British as Nazis. In one wholly fictitious scene a British General herded women, children and old people into a church, padlocked the door and burnt them to death.

* A film about the campaign in Burma was made before that war was even over and ignored the role of British and Commonwealth troops.

* Another film inaccurately suggested that America played a vital and possibly decisive role in the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940.

One angry reader wrote to me to say: `I witnessed the Battle of Britain as a young lad. The Battle of Britain was won in 1940 but the Americans didn't enter the war until 1942. The Americans have now claimed they won that. They claim they captured the Enigma (rather than the Royal Navy) and won the Battle of the Bulge (in which I was a participant).' He and other readers who have fought alongside the Americans have written about the incompetence, arrogance and stupidity of American commanders and of American troops. 'The Americans fight a good battle in Hollywood where everyone is firing blanks but when it's for real they aren't quite so sharp,' commented one British war veteran.

These claims made by American film makers undoubtedly influence the way Americans think. But hijacking and altering history in America's favour has now become commonplace. America didn't even enter the Second World War until December 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the japanese and after Germany had forced America's hand by declaring war on them. In 1940, when Britain desperately wanted America's help, only 8% of Americans favoured joining Britain in the Second World War. As late as May 1941 77% of Americans still opposed fighting either Germany or Japan unless their country was provoked. When Winston Churchill (the Prime Minister) and Anthony Eden (then the Foreign Secretary) negotiated the loan of 50 or 60 American rather ramshackle destroyers our so-called allies insisted that in part payment Britain hand over to America its bases in the West Indies and Newfoundland. Eden described the bargaining as `less than friendly'. When the USA Congress agreed to `support' Britain they did it on a profit making basis. They created a scheme called `lend-lease' which meant that Britain could defer payment on the arms supplied by the Americans for the war against Hitler. When the lend-lease scheme ended in 1945 at the end of the Second World War Britain found herself with enormous debts and was forced to borrow money from the Americans on very harsh terms. After the war the Americans refused to share any of their nuclear research (even though much of it had been done by British scientists).


Taken from Confronting the Global Bully by Vernon Coleman, published by Blue Books. Confronting the Global Bully is available from the bookshop on this website and from all terrestial and Web-based bookshops.


Copyright Vernon Coleman 2004


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