lotta good thats done them
Heh, the same kind of use has been made of Boudicca by the UK — she was a bloodthirsty, mass-murdering nutjob who led 70,000 Celts from dozens of British tribes into an abatoir, and yet is held up as an anachronistic nationalist hero. Ridiculous.
France, under Napoleon III, conducted an investigation of one of the purported sites of the massive Battle of Alesia, which was the huge, final defeat for the Gallic tribes under Vercingetorix — but again, used as an anachronistic nationalist symbol.
WWII was made possible by the relative low losses of German soldiery in WWI. Had their losses in WWI been anything like is *still* churned out of British textbooks, Germany would never have been able to start, much less sustain, WWII.
Okay, yeah, that paragraph only makes sense in my overall milieu.