“he must be called out for who he is, for the values he represents: colonial, warmongering, racist, far-right values… Silence seems to us to be the worst thing we can do on these issues.”
Historian Simon Schama on US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s D-Day remarks.
Schama described the remarks as a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
