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Research is hard at the best of times @yavasa.
My training on incident investigation stated that at best after interviewing everyone involved at best about 65% to 70% should correlate. If it goes higher than that you are in danger of everyone is trying to stick to the same story they have constructed to protect themselves from being found as fault. The issue that I faced is that I was there to establish root cause and not lay blame on anyone.
I find applying this rule to research will identify that the historic record was modified for various reasons. The victor attempting to look better than they were, to increase the level of blame upon the defeated or simply passing on propaganda of the day. Things like the Stuka was obsolete, yet the allies continued to produce drive bombers and yet when you compare them the Stuka remains the most advanced drive bomber of the period. Another favorite of mine is that the bark of the Mg42 was far worse than its bite. There are many more but they cloud up the real history. Victory really goes to the leaders of the people and they are free to rewrite any way they wish. If it does not suit the leadership that follows them then they will rewrite it again. If some old history was about to be declassified and it would paint the current political party in a bad light then it is unlikely to be declassified. Then when time passes and the old adversaries are now economic partners then history is modified again to be kinder. Like here in Australia the Japanese has become our major trading partner. As a result of this what the Japanese did to us in WW2 is hardly taught at all.
In theory to me history is something that has happened and was recorded for the future. Yet the more I research it appears that history is something that remains in flux. Sure the head lines remain but the details detail seems to change.
Buta am glad when people like your self try to really find out what actually happened, in this case Poland, for a new generation.
Given this I have stopped calling myself an armature historian a long time ago but rather an armature history analyst. This is because modern historians rarely test their data, preferring simply to repeat it.
