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I think its more people “blocking out bad/depressing news” and dumbing themselves down than any lack of information

most kids get taught loads about WW II in high school even today

there is a world war II documentary of some sort on every few weeks on telly and tons of websites with real info from people who were there (many OAPs are still fit enough to use a computer even if they are suffering mobility problems, todays computers can be made easy to use even if they have bad eyesight etc so many are contributing their own memories to online resources)

I don’t mean to be “sexist” but also could be a gender thing

Many girls and women don’t like learning about war, death and destruction and as soon as they no longer need to “know” this forget about what they learned at high school unless its part of their uni course or they are a campaigner

Young boys and men aren’t as squeamish (to the point they can develop an unhealthy fascination with it, or want to join the military themselves or at least “play soldiers” (hence the popularity of computer wargames))

what I find far more worrying is some of the young men across Europe I see online who actually have studied military history closely and clearly have an admiration for Hitler and fascism even in the 21st century (some have even gone as far as to carry out or attempt to carry out terrorist attacks) :hopeless:

Must be really hard to teach about history now..

There’s so many wars everywhere and you can’t cover them all..

Not sure there’s a rule saying that 25% or 50% of the history lessons have to be about WW2..

Maybe younger teachers have another point of view about what’s important..

WW2 was a terrible war, but there are so many terrible wars around the world right now too

I can’t say what’s most important for our kids to learn :hopeless:

I think the history of World War II must still always be taught in schools as all current history of Europe and the wider world is still shaped by it around it.

The Cold War, the formation of NATO and the EU, the rise of the USA and the fall of the British Empire (its finances overstretched by WW II) etc..

It was also was at that point that science/technology invented or perfected many of the things we take for granted today like computers and international telecommunications (they were only released to the public after the war).

some bits of WWII are still active, the Japanese have refused to completely sign peace treaties which concede some pokey little islands to other nations. Their current stubborn determination to hunt whales is also a sovereignty/territory thing (most Japanese don’t even want to eat the things!)

Also I think those who learn as much as they can about survival in austerity conditions will do well in the near future as World War III escalates due to the resource wars over oil..