Whenever I encounter a reference to the 'Red Baron' I think about how nobody called him that until Snoopy did.
Historical narratives are a strange beast.
Historical narratives are a strange beast.
Should probably do a thread about that at some point when it isn't 2am.
Basically it's an interesting exercise in how nicknames get popularised.
There's a reasonable argument to suggest that Schultz did more to cement that nickname for him for posterity than anything published in the West during or after the war.
There's a reasonable argument to suggest that Schultz did more to cement that nickname for him for posterity than anything published in the West during or after the war.
Demonstrating the origins of stuff like this is always tricky from a historical perspective though.
I need to find more stuff on it before writing it up in any way. And probably to combine it with similar examples elsewhere in cultural memory.
I need to find more stuff on it before writing it up in any way. And probably to combine it with similar examples elsewhere in cultural memory.
Which may involve me writing a lot about Hamilton and how the future's cultural image of certain founding fathers is likely to be VERY different from what it has been until now.
Probably with a side reference to that Sinbad film everyone claims to have seen but which doesn't actually exist.
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