“History is written by the victors.”
“After a great war, history is written by the victors and legends develop which glorify them.”
from p. 35 of "The Third Reich and The Atomic Bomb [Review of The Virus House by David Irving]" in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Pp. 34-35, June 1968), translated from the German by Margaret Seckel.
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