How the woke BBC smeared Scouts founder Baden-Powell as a Nazi sympathiser | History Defended

By all accounts, Robert Baden-Powell was an extraordinary man.

He lived many lives; from his time as a spy to the Victorian hero of the Boer War, and finally as the founder of the international Scouts movement.

However, his detractors accuse him of having Nazi sympathies, and of committing terrible crimes in colonial Africa.

To discover the truth about Baden-Powell, Steven Edginton interviews Scouting historian Tony Ransley in the latest episode of the video podcast History Defended.

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[ianhortonplant]

Scouts and scouting is possibly the most positive community on the planet. Amazing organisation.

[richardmcleod]

A shame the Statues of Robert Baden-Powell are being torn down. He is a man to be honored not to be looked down upon.

[uria]

We should stop viewing our history through the lens of the present day. If we continue to do this we will have no Heroes left The legacy of Baden-Powell, Scouts, still remains, and he should be honoured for this.

[larrydugan]

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past, control the future.” — from George Orwell's “1984.”

[paulrevere]

Semper Gumby hath said:
Technology might change the world, but Manskills make the world a better place.

Baden-Powell was a great mentor and champion of Manskills. He deserves to be remembered with honor.

[jameswebb]

Great man such Baden-Powell . Nelson and Rhodes and other British hero's were worth all of the Wokes alive today .

[johnbatson]

As an Eagle Scout since 1969, I say remove the utterly useless BBC

[simplelifelost]

Lovely balanced interview on a fascinating man.

[TorMax]

Theory and practice. If the theory doesn't work in practice, it's just hogwash. Today we try to cram practice into theory through psychological pressure - guilt, shame, fear, social pressure, career threats, etc.

[ShadowWizard]

By this logic, every statue of every British monarch ever should be torn down.

[leighchristopherson]

It was a great disappointment to me when I visited South Africa, and was told it wasn't safe for a white person to go to Mafeking.

[peterrooke]

During the siege of mafeking in the second boer war he was affectionately known by his men as bathing towel due to the fact he was often seen bathing in a tin bath and often walked about with a towel round his waist .

[billh.]

Find out everything that the woke crowd did. If drug use or jailed, go to town on them. Have fun mates!

[bloodyconstraint]

Wandervogel in Germany predated the scouts, was much less formal and in some cases actually illegal.

[EnyawYorlig]

I hate what this country is allowing to be done these days.

[me_TJ_MrB]

The "woke" need to go back and sleep so that we can wake up from their nightmare.

[verge]

I wouldn't trust the BBC if it said 1 + 1 = 2.

[peterbuckley]

Interesting documentary but Mafeking was a Boer / Afrikaner town even though the British forces were besieged there in the Boer war. So were the first Boy Scouts Boer boys?

[thies]

Scouting is a movement. A lot of national associations have acted in that way and revalued their activities to match it. Only those being stuck in traditional attitudes will go down, being targeted by the woke critics. Anyone researching Baden Powell thoroughly will rather come across a very critical person than someone flowing with the stream. Let's face it: Nobody of that era had values matching 21st Century ideals. Get used to that.

[kerriebones]

What dose Lord Robert Baden-Powell family think of all of this by taking his statute away and being a spy. As a long line of guiding ang scouting in my family