According to this, the re-enactment of the Battle of Trafalgar (to commemorate its 200th anniversary) will tactfully refrain from revealing that the French lost.
Posted by Dr. Frank at June 1, 2005 04:52 AM | TrackBackSorry, Basil, I'm mentioning it...
I visited Berlin in 1993, not long after the fall of the Wall. I went to the Bundestag where there was a big museum exhibition on 20th-century German history. There was plenty of information about the evils of the Nazis and the Holocaust, but the Fall of Berlin -- Germany's actual defeat by the allies -- was depicted only by a huge set of pictures. It seemed as if the Germans had a harder time wrapping their minds around the fact of losing the war than they did discussing the horrors of the Nazi regime. Sorta like some Southerners calling the Civil War the "Recent Unpleasantness." Or all the vitriol available in the US for discussions of Vietnam.
Posted by: Nick at June 1, 2005 05:09 AM