Blog Assignment 5

An instance that comes to my mind where winners writing history is the victors of the World War 1. The victors of the war were Britain, France and Russia. Being victors they blamed the trigger and every effect of the war on Germany. The victors therefore demanded compensation for their losses as a peace treaty between the victors and the losers. As we all know this lead deep resentment with the Germans with resulted in the birth of Nazism with Hitler as its leader eventually leading Europe to the next war that is World War 2. If the losers had wrote the history, they would have agreed with their defeat but wouldn’t put the blame of the hostilities of the war at either the victors or the losers since both had an equal part in causing destruction to each other. If the losers had written history, the public of Britain and France which were both democratic states would have cancelled out the compensation Germany and the other loser had to pay in the Versailles Peace treaty. This could have prevented the deep resentment of the victors in Germany, thus could have stopped the birth of Nazism and could have probably stopped the World War 2 from ever occurring, therefore saving countless lives.