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The name of the man who created this text is W. B. Feldman.
Episode 1: How it really happened.
Introduction
I believe it can be said without much exaggeration that each one of us, watching the episodes of "Star Wars", is highly tempted to interpret them as an historical source. The fact that they are well done, realistic, and full of well known events makes the temptation irresistible.
Nevertheless, a serious researcher has simply got no right for such an attitude towards a film largely made for entertainment. This is most relevant for Episode I, Episode IV and the second half of Episode VI.
The fact about Episode I which distinguishes it from the others in this respect is that while the youth and the second half of Anakin-Vader's life are largely documented (by audio and video recordings, protocols of the meetings of the governmental bodies of the Republic and the Empire, the Jedi Council, the Rebel Command etc.) reliable information sources about his childhood are all but absent. The handwritten memoirs of his teacher Obi-Wan Kenobi which reached us are (unlike the memoirs of Master Yoda) a document of first of all political rather than historical orientation, and as for the numerous recollections of Anakin-Vader's childhood friends they were collected only after the establishment of the New Republic meaning almost half a century after the actual events.
As a result, the childhood of Anakin-Vader has largely become myth-like and the few facts and events which did take place are completely lost among the sea of fiction and conjectures. This is the situation I intend to correct as much as possible with this research.