'Useless white male pilots are clearly not the flavour of the month in the woke establishment:
New TV series will dismantle Colditz ‘mythology’ and show racism of British officers
The adaptation of
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle, by Ben Macintyre, will offer a “21st-century narrative” view of life within its walls.
The book “digs a bit deeper” into the legend. One such legend is that of
Douglas Bader, the flying ace who lost both legs in a crash in 1931 but became the RAF’s most celebrated Spitfire pilot during the Second World War.
“Bader was the most famous prisoner in Colditz. He was the most famous fighting soldier on either side during the war. He was an extraordinary man, remarkably brave; he could inspire courage in others.
“But he was also horrible. He was a monster. Bader was racist, snobbish, brutally unpleasant to anybody he considered of lower socio-economic order,”
Dear oh dear. The point about Bader is that fought as hard as he could to defend our country in the face of the biggest threat since the Norman Conquests. He certainly wasn't from a priveleged background and depended on the charity of others to get him through the system. He was a huge inspration to others. Certainly a rough diamond and certainly controversial and that was eighty years ago in a dire national crisis.
This woke lot are all about deconstructing our identity and re building it in some kind of cultural marxist way. I don't know why the Telegraph even bothered to run this story. It seems like they are in on the act too.