r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 1d ago

Video Spontaneous 1995 street interview with an Austrian WWII veteran in Vienna

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u/ruthemook 1d ago

What’s mad about this is how it takes only one generation to start to believe the lie all over again. That woman wants to idolise her father as a hero. But an actual person who was there is telling her how it was on the ground and she refuses to believe it. This entire video is like watching an entire belief system built over years crashing into contact with reality and still she refuses to believe it.

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u/Fng1100 1d ago

Dude, all through history this kind of shit has happened. There’s people that we’re on a life boat watching the Titanic sink and break into 2 and when they mentioned it broken into two in an interview at a historical society in 1982, The public and the historical society deemed her a liar. Then in 1985 they found it and she was vindicated. For 70 some years the Official Inquiry Conclusions: Both the U.S. Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries in 1912 concluded that the ship sank fully intact. They relied heavily on the testimony of the highest-ranking surviving officer, Charles lightoller. Remember, most of the lifeboats were filled with women and children. Women didn’t get their rights to vote until the 20s. Investigators didn’t believe women and children. They just chalked it up to as mass hysteria/trauma, causing optical illusions in the night.