> That is not what happened, that is a collection of misconceptions people gathered which are only loosely based on actual history. The fact that the folk hist

> That is not what happened, that is a collection of misconceptions people gathered which are only loosely based on actual history. The fact that the folk history many people think they know may be distant from our best substantiated histories doesn't really detract from the point that folk history of WWII may be kindof incredible. Plus, there's certainly enough incredible but apparently accurate stuff in our best histories. Also... "actual history?" By which we mean "what actually happened" or by which we mean "the best substantiated narratives we have"? Because as far as I can tell, "what actually happened" is pretty elusive. Some histories are better substantiated from recorded observation and evidence than others, but all of them are interpolations of one degree or another from a set of evidence that's always more limited than the larger picture we try to paint.