>Me, trying to find out who started WW2 >I start reading a text, the text makes a claim. >A source is given. >I check the source. >The source is a book. >I see if I can find the book online. >If yes, I start reading. >The book makes a claim. >I check the source. >The source is a book.
How am I supposed to find out what really happened? Is there any place I can find original documents or something else? Do I have to go by intuition?
Maybe in future when the study of World War 2 isn't mostly politicised you'll perhaps be able to find more solid info.
Evan Hughes
and answers on Sup Forums will be as biased.
Mason Lewis
>Me, trying to find out who started WW2 Oh God I know where this thread is going
Thomas James
>who started WW2 March 24, 1933
Brayden Howard
WWII was obviously started by vicious Poles who not only wanted to genocide Germans in historically German cities like Warsaw or Krakov but also try to steal precious German Jews.
Jordan Moore
This. Fucking Poles and their lies
Germans dindu nuffin
Logan Mitchell
first of all, this is much more a question form /hist/ than Sup Forums
however, since I am not that autistic here are my two cents
history relies on primary sources and archeological evidence both however are hard to digest, further back you go, the more language barrier and the way of thinking differs and makes analyzing the said material harder
as such, historians rely on big works of historical interpretation - those works on itself are susceptible to bias
bias can be national, ideological or any other color, not to mention mistranslations and misinterpretations that paint the future historians opinions literally by mistake
so, if you are in to history, you should read different authors, preferably holding different opinions and in the end checking out primary sources and make your own god damn opinion
unfortunately history do not have the rigorous self regulatory mechanism of science
Camden Gonzalez
Read "der krieg der viele väter hatte" there are all your answers.