Steven BeschlossYou don’t have to be progressive to grasp Nazis and Nazism are bad things and contrary to American principles. It just takes memory or a history class about what side Americans were on. Over 16M Americans fought in WWII, over 400k died and nearly 700k were wounded to defend democracy and America.
STAR TREK USS VALKYRIE GROUP@StevenBeschloss It takes the memory of a real history class that teaches the truth. I was born in 1953. I went to the same schools as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer. We barely learned about what Hitler did in World War II. Of course we were taught they were the bad guys. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Hitler wanted to take over the world. But it was only from my family and extracurricular reading that I learned the whole truth about the holocaust.
James Trickle uP@WookieCat @StevenBeschloss Born in 1965, I learned about Nazi atrocities from the well done history TV show, World at War. I'm grateful for the lesson. I had no idea people could be so horrible to other people until I saw that shown week after week.
@opalmirror @StevenBeschloss It wasn’t just that we weren’t taught in school. Our families who had lived through it, particularly the ones who were in concentration camps and survived, refused to discuss it with their own children. My grandmother, born in the US, once walked in and turned off a show I was watching about Auschwitz. If you haven’t seen it, I recommend the Ken Burns docu about the US and the Holocaust. It was just on recently. Excellent as always.
JMinSD@WookieCat @opalmirror @StevenBeschloss Right. My husband's Ukrainian parents, who were captured and forced into a German work camp, never talked much about their experience there. But his mother could remember exactly what she was wearing when the Germans took her from her home at 16 years old--even in her later years when she had dementia. The Americans were seen as liberators when the war ended. My father served in the Pacific and only talked about his WWII experience many years later.