London attacked by Aliens (1944)

[wm]

This man, historically educated and holding a real V-2 rocket igniter (or fuse?), says he met an eyewitness who claimed that simple Londoners thought they were attacked by aliens from outer space (because of all the out-of-this-world noises generated by the supersonic rocket) when first V-2s landed in London.

Who knows what the eyewitness, a really old woman, remembered correctly, but is there any truth to it?

[OpanaPointer]

That kind of story would have been repeatedly endlessly if it had any legs at all.

[wm]

The keyword is "simple people."
I suppose not much is known about what they, the poor, even the masses, thought and believed.
Elites write history, and their knowledge of the lower-class culture is usually cartoonish.

[OpanaPointer]

The keyword is "simple people."
I suppose not much is known about what they, the poor, even the masses, thought and believed.
Elites write history, and their knowledge of the lower-class culture is usually cartoonish.

Elites may write history, but the hoi-polloi create the crazy stories. "EVERYBODY KNOWS there are sasquatch in them there woods.!"

[wm]

The lower classes weren't like that. Especially the workers.
The crazy stories were propagated by the usual suspects, as Mr. Orwell wrote, the "fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist" - i.e., the intellectuals.

[EKB]

Lord Mountbatten and Prince Philip were noted for belief of extraterrestrial life. Although some might disagree, I don't think they were intellectuals.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ufo-prin ... _b_1097661

[Michael Kenny]

The V2 arrived silently. No noise, no ear-witness and thus no chance to shoehorn modern right-wing political craziness into WW2

[Michael Kenny]

The 'uneducated' 'non-intellectual' 'lower class workers' were given the chance to assuage their curiosity when several Nazi wunder-waffen were put on display in Trafalgar Square in September 1945.

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[Michael Kenny]

If I remember correctly the Government line for the spacecraft discovered by workers during tube station excavations (See Dr Quatermass And The Pit) was that it was a Nazi rocket from WW2....hmmm......perhaps you might be on to something after all?

Also I believe the Guardian let it slip during one of their 1970s adverts how they see themselves as the educated 'elite' who are the natural leaders for the lower orders.

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I believe it was quickly removed and all trace erased. Good job I took a pic before it all was covered up!