What widely believed historical events are actually fake or happened

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>>2625837
I get rustled when people believe in King Arthur or say
>History is written by the victors.
There are phenomenal misapprehensions about WW2 though, that's not a fair place to start. Too many people think all Germans were Nazis and all Nazis were those grotesque duplicitous monsters in Spielberg's saving private Ryan.
Pic related, first time I was forced to reconsider the narrative.

The politicized moments of history have the most momentum and are thus the easiest to change. I think as a rule, people think slavery in the USA was much worse than it really was. I've told several incredulous adults, including a history lecturer that roots is a work of fiction - it's all pretty embarrassing, shows how emotion driven history has become.

People also think the USA was some massive underdog during the revolution which I can't say I understand, especially after the euro support they courted.

>>2626512
get teh fuck off my internet you piece of shit

>>2625837
Witch burning during the early and high Middle Ages was almost nonexistent, yet the way the media describe the period one would think they were a daily occurrence.

>>2625837

The popular image of WW1 trench warfare is people slowly walking forward over the mud to be mown down by machine guns.

In real life, most trench assaults actually succeeded in capturing sections of trench, and the biggest problem was holding the place you just took against the inevitable counterattack. Trench warfare was very active on the tactical scale; it just tended to even out.

>>2627365
Yeah, trenches were like ogres: they had lots of layers.