History is written by those who win. This is why you can celebrate Columbus Day but there is no Hitler Day. This is why you commemorate the Holocaust but you donβt even know the extent of the genocide that was inflicted upon the Native population in the Americas. Had Nazi Germany won, nobody would have known about the suffering of the Jews and the Nazi leaders would have been looked at under a different light. Nor would the rest of the West would have shown the same consideration towards the Jews and the Holocaust as they pretend to do now in such a case. And if the Europeans had lost in the Americas, history would have narrated to us the crimes that the Europeans committed when they came here, not their glorification.
(via negus-wit-attitude)