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Kill the Children's Crusade

History | February 11, 2006 | Tim

I am getting sooo tired of hearing everyone repeat the myth of the Children's Crusade. Especially the version where they sell the children to pirates. As best as we can tell, no such thing ever happened, and the sources from which we derive the story were, uh, highly questionable.

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I suspect Kurt Vonnegut's (totally overrated) Slaughterhouse Five has had much to do with cementing the "Children's Crusade" in people's minds.

Posted by: Varenius on February 28, 2006 02:51 PM

It's odd, Varenius: plant an allegedly historical idea in a book of fiction and people will soak it up like a sponge, and defend it as though it were their own grandmother.

Posted by: Tim (Random Observations) on February 28, 2006 04:13 PM

Hey, don't even get me started on the Da Vinci Crock... ;-)

Vonnegut's book also is a major reason why the WWII bombing of Dresden is considered such an enormity. Bad as it was, though, a more balanced perspective shows that much about it has been overlooked. (And I say that, as you'll see, as someone whose family knew children who were killed in that raid.)

Posted by: Varenius on March 2, 2006 03:22 PM

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