Winston Churchill was involved in activities which could today be considered war crimes, a BBC historian has claimed. ‘So while I’m personally glad that Churchill overcame Halifax in early 1940 and it was Churchill who faced the Nazis that year and the years that followed, that doesn’t mean that he wasn’t somebody that wasn’t responsible, or largely responsible, for the Bengal famine [of 1943-44]. ‘It doesn’t mean that he wasn’t someone who took part in things we would consider war crimes in Africa. It doesn’t mean that his views, the things he espoused, were shocking to members of his Cabinet, never mind to people at the time. ‘Certain people, we only want to hear the good things that they do.

Source: Daily Mail March 19, 2018 01:55 UTC