Unbelievable efforts are undertaken today to find the "truth". This happens in the court rooms, where witnesses are checked for their credibility or in the criminal sciences, to prove the commitment of a crime.

In the same manner today, and with the most modern scientific tools, historians also try to establish the "truth", so that sometimes history has to be completely rewritten newly afterwards.

At the moment, we are in the midst of an explosion in relation to knowledge. This is even true for the science of history. As to history, meanwhile, we are dealing with a highly differentiated subject, which claims a much higher level of "truth" than two hundred years ago - simply because we are now in the possession of totally different tools.

We own more documents, have more precise methods and ask more intensive questions. Physics and chemistry are new sciences belonging to history. We know much more about the methods of falsifiers, which are so clever and crafty that one is nearly in awe. For example, even in antiquity at least 13 methods of falsifying were in existence, which people used later to falsify a rhetoric speech of Caesar; that is to say, claiming he gave this speech when he didn't. Another example, is the method used to covertly add something to the New Testament.

There have even been falsifications and forgeries in the ancient times of Plato and Aristotle. Parts of the Bible and parts of the Islamic religion were falsified: one forger, as we know today for sure, alone falsified 4000 sayings of Mohammed!

There is the clumsy forgery, but here is also the unbelievably clever and crafty falsification. At one time there existed a whole industry for falsification-purposes, which did nothing else than falsify writings and documents of the great philosophers and religious and political leaders, so that its own word had more power or for the purpose of creating a juristic postulate, for example.

This is just one reason why, today, we have to change our opinions and ideas about the past.

In this book, 15 historic personalities are looked at under the microscope, but without any "public relations", without all those falsifications and without a fixed religious or national viewpoint.

This book deals with Moses, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero, St. Paul, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Columbus, Machiavelli, Luther, Peter the Great, Galileo Galilee, Napoleon and Bismarck. The result is an utterly new viewpoint about many "historic facts".