Agreed. Seems like some folks have lost the plot.
Flawed he might have been, but he was the man for the times.
There was a lot to disagree with the historian Cooper on, and it was his characterization of Churchill I found offensive and flat wrong.
But historians are offensive and wrong all the time.
My main interest was in two things: This ‘episode’ being used by the Left as a tool to damage someone they hate (Conservatives and Tucker), and secondly, the branding of Tucker and Cooper as anti-semites by saying they denied the Holocaust.
They did nothing of the sort. Cooper was discussing the plight of the Soviet POWs who got treatment even worse than the Jews, to the point there were accounts of concentration camp Jewish inmates who took pity on the Russians.
Cooper may have been completely wrong about the how and why of the treatment of those POWs, but NOTHING in that entire interview had anything to do with the Jewish Holocaust and the mechanics of that on the part of the Nazis.
The only commonality was that the Soviet POWs were often in the same camps as Jewish concentration camps, except that they were always segregated competely. They were kept in different parts of the camp, separated by barbed wire.
The media created Churchill and people obviously fell for it.
This guy is not a historian.
The record of everything Churchill did before and during WW2 is meticulously recorded in his 5 volume book, The Second World War.
It consists of hundreds of his 'minutes' or memos he dictated to various officials during these years. Between them are narratives of what he did, said, and thought.
If one would read just the first two volumes, The Gathering Storm and Their Finest Hour, all the historian's legwork has been done by Churchill and any objective person would have to agree that he almost singlehandedly coordinated the rearming and motivation of England to save itself and the Western World. And just in the nick of time.
Tucker by his ignorance of Churchill's account (or any other contemporary of Churchill's account of which there are many) gave this charlatan a venue to spout his unsubstantiated garbage. Shame on Tucker. He may look all smart and preppy, but he obviously lives in the Kamala realm of feckless ignorance and weak-mindedness.
He should at least have read a Readers Digest Condensed Book about this, or maybe binge watch The Hitler Channel or Smithsonian. WW2 docs run 7/24/365.
Churchill didnt become PM until 1940.
What do you say about Churchill agreeing to the forced repatriation of Russian immigrants, forcing them to return to Russia and to their death?
Pure crap.