How World War II Is Taught Around The World
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Date: 2024-04-14
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rodgerrodger1839
We ( me) were not spared to much in school about the war. They didn't pull to many punches back then. We were shown the Japanese Americans being taken from their homes and businesses and being put in internment camps. We were told how paranoid everyone was back then, but still didn't make it right what we did. We were shown graphic films and photos of the landings at Normandy. They showed the pink surf. The tied ran red with blood so many men had died in such a short period of time. We were shown graphic footage of the ghettos of Warsaw and the death camps. Footage of starving American soldiers under Japanese imprisonment. We were shown the fire bombing of Dresden. The fire bombing of Tokyo. Then of course the dropping of the Atom bomb.
I have no idea what they teach now. I also know my father was there. He had PTSD. He only talked a little bit about it. He wouldn't talk about the Pacific campaign at all.
How any kid at seventeen was supposed shake off three years of unrelenting horror is mind boggling. He saw the horror of Normandy, Okinawa and three other previous landings.
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We ( me) were not spared to much in school about the war. They didn't pull to many punches back then. We were shown the Japanese Americans being taken from their homes and businesses and being put in internment camps. We were told how paranoid everyone was back then, but still didn't make it right what we did. We were shown graphic films and photos of the landings at Normandy. They showed the pink surf. The tied ran red with blood so many men had died in such a short period of time. We were shown graphic footage of the ghettos of Warsaw and the death camps. Footage of starving American soldiers under Japanese imprisonment. We were shown the fire bombing of Dresden. The fire bombing of Tokyo. Then of course the dropping of the Atom bomb.
I have no idea what they teach now. I also know my father was there. He had PTSD. He only talked a little bit about it. He wouldn't talk about the Pacific campaign at all.
How any kid at seventeen was supposed shake off three years of unrelenting horror is mind boggling. He saw the horror of Normandy, Okinawa and three other previous landings.
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galloe8933
Been following the history of the second world war almost as long as I've been old enough to watch things that weren't cartoons, or old cartoons of that time played over Toon heads on Cartoon Network in the 90s.
One of the more wild episodes of Popeye after Pearl Harbor, did you kills us a bunch of (Japanese) uncle Popeye
But I really, actually wanted to say that I had no idea where the idea for thin crispy waffles came from, and at first I just thought they were a new snack being tested out at my local grocery store.
I like those waffle things, and am happy to know they are not just a one time thing WinCo thought up.
Back on the topic of this video, like I said, I know a lot, and I'm willing to bet that most of the audience here does too, and that's wonderful, good company and all. But so much happened everywhere in that short amount of time that it would be hard to even kind of know most of everything.
That's all to say that this was a good video, and I appreciate it.
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Been following the history of the second world war almost as long as I've been old enough to watch things that weren't cartoons, or old cartoons of that time played over Toon heads on Cartoon Network in the 90s.
One of the more wild episodes of Popeye after Pearl Harbor, did you kills us a bunch of (Japanese) uncle Popeye
But I really, actually wanted to say that I had no idea where the idea for thin crispy waffles came from, and at first I just thought they were a new snack being tested out at my local grocery store.
I like those waffle things, and am happy to know they are not just a one time thing WinCo thought up.
Back on the topic of this video, like I said, I know a lot, and I'm willing to bet that most of the audience here does too, and that's wonderful, good company and all. But so much happened everywhere in that short amount of time that it would be hard to even kind of know most of everything.
That's all to say that this was a good video, and I appreciate it.
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oldschoolman9878
From what I’ve heard, in Japan, they don’t discuss the evils they committed and sometimes outright deny them. Events like the treatment of Allied POWs, the treatment of Philippino civilian particularly during the battle of Manilla, their marauding in China and every country they occupied, the Burma Death Railway, or even how they treated the native Okinawans during the namesake battle. What I think is partly to blame for this was former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s, push for historical revisionism to strengthen his push for ultra nationalism. Obviously, this type of nationalism was what led to Japanese incursions into Manchuria and subsequently led to WWII.
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From what I’ve heard, in Japan, they don’t discuss the evils they committed and sometimes outright deny them. Events like the treatment of Allied POWs, the treatment of Philippino civilian particularly during the battle of Manilla, their marauding in China and every country they occupied, the Burma Death Railway, or even how they treated the native Okinawans during the namesake battle. What I think is partly to blame for this was former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s, push for historical revisionism to strengthen his push for ultra nationalism. Obviously, this type of nationalism was what led to Japanese incursions into Manchuria and subsequently led to WWII.
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priscilam. 9808
Funny enough, my family migrated to South America from Italy in the early 1900s. My grandparents and my dad all spoke German. We live in the city with the biggest Italian and Japanese colonies in the world. So I was never taught about holocaust OR what Japan did in the war in school. I only did as a teenager when I already had learned English. Im 42 now, there was no Wikipedia back then. I found it out thru imported books. Keep that in mind. It is fascinating to me how politics play a huge part in what you learn in school.
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Funny enough, my family migrated to South America from Italy in the early 1900s. My grandparents and my dad all spoke German. We live in the city with the biggest Italian and Japanese colonies in the world. So I was never taught about holocaust OR what Japan did in the war in school. I only did as a teenager when I already had learned English. Im 42 now, there was no Wikipedia back then. I found it out thru imported books. Keep that in mind. It is fascinating to me how politics play a huge part in what you learn in school.
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dariopetrak7377
I'm from Croatia and the way we were taught history is that first we learned about what was happening in the world in general during a certain period of time and then we would learn about what was happening in Croatia during that same period. But i noticed that both in elementary and high school there seemingly wasnt almost anything to talk about when it comes to Croatia during ww2. I only found out what really happened because of TikTok.
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I'm from Croatia and the way we were taught history is that first we learned about what was happening in the world in general during a certain period of time and then we would learn about what was happening in Croatia during that same period. But i noticed that both in elementary and high school there seemingly wasnt almost anything to talk about when it comes to Croatia during ww2. I only found out what really happened because of TikTok.
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JB-pk3bz
7: 04 I am curious as to why Norway sees the UK as a thumbs-up and the USA as a thumbs-down It was the British who dropped the ball when Germany was invading in April 1940. Like Norway, the USA was a neutral country. Also, as the USA is vastly further away than the UK, there was little opportunity to intervene.
Was the Norwegian negative attitude towards the USA based on further events of WW2
I am an American, BTW.
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7: 04 I am curious as to why Norway sees the UK as a thumbs-up and the USA as a thumbs-down It was the British who dropped the ball when Germany was invading in April 1940. Like Norway, the USA was a neutral country. Also, as the USA is vastly further away than the UK, there was little opportunity to intervene.
Was the Norwegian negative attitude towards the USA based on further events of WW2
I am an American, BTW.
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letstrend
Yeah it's actually taught wrong. Too much emphasis on the battles, technology and people. The Nazi's were also able to stay together until the bitter end and well after they all knew they would lose the war. The Nazi's practiced an ideology of hate and they were extremely committed to cause which is very relevant in today's politics. None of this is taught in schools today. Just the Nazi's are evil and don't be a Nazi.
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Yeah it's actually taught wrong. Too much emphasis on the battles, technology and people. The Nazi's were also able to stay together until the bitter end and well after they all knew they would lose the war. The Nazi's practiced an ideology of hate and they were extremely committed to cause which is very relevant in today's politics. None of this is taught in schools today. Just the Nazi's are evil and don't be a Nazi.
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jasondashney
In Canada we are taught that our soldiers were totally badass in WWII and how there are towns in France that have monuments to the sacrifices Canadians made there. How much of what I've learned is real and how much is propaganda I'm Canadian so I have no idea. I only know what the government has told me. I hope it's true. From what I understand, we had some seriously elite units.
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In Canada we are taught that our soldiers were totally badass in WWII and how there are towns in France that have monuments to the sacrifices Canadians made there. How much of what I've learned is real and how much is propaganda I'm Canadian so I have no idea. I only know what the government has told me. I hope it's true. From what I understand, we had some seriously elite units.
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Radishindependent
i mean i dont think they'd go in detail with the battles since alot of students would find them cool because how fast no no germany won most of them until 1943 ofcourse these would be soy boys that havent ever experienced war or even a fraction of it and therefore might get the idea that it is cool and awesome to follow mustache man's teachings because it made him win so much
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i mean i dont think they'd go in detail with the battles since alot of students would find them cool because how fast no no germany won most of them until 1943 ofcourse these would be soy boys that havent ever experienced war or even a fraction of it and therefore might get the idea that it is cool and awesome to follow mustache man's teachings because it made him win so much
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johnschoen703
Funny about this topic. We leaned about the Civil War up in New Jersey in the 1970s. My cousin of the same age learned about the war of Northern aggression down in Alabama at the same time. May be different these days, but we're still yanks down there as we are in blotty old England just a few short years ago. I take the name with honor as our founding fathers did.
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Funny about this topic. We leaned about the Civil War up in New Jersey in the 1970s. My cousin of the same age learned about the war of Northern aggression down in Alabama at the same time. May be different these days, but we're still yanks down there as we are in blotty old England just a few short years ago. I take the name with honor as our founding fathers did.
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weird_history
Japan is probably the country that mostly don't teach what they did in WW2. As far as I know, in Japan they only teach that they went to war, nukes were drop, and they surrendered. Most war crimes or even what happened isn't even taught. Hence if Japanese people go to other countries that Japan occupied, they suddenly learn on the truth of what actually happened.
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Japan is probably the country that mostly don't teach what they did in WW2. As far as I know, in Japan they only teach that they went to war, nukes were drop, and they surrendered. Most war crimes or even what happened isn't even taught. Hence if Japanese people go to other countries that Japan occupied, they suddenly learn on the truth of what actually happened.
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RobertPiotrowski96
Kinda weird that you didn't include how history is tought in Poland(Yeah, I'm from Poland. It's not only the fact that we teach a lot about the war, from human stories, through politics, to millitary operations, we also have unique perspective of how history could be bend by goverment, since for decades after the war we were under Soviet Union's thumb.
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Kinda weird that you didn't include how history is tought in Poland(Yeah, I'm from Poland. It's not only the fact that we teach a lot about the war, from human stories, through politics, to millitary operations, we also have unique perspective of how history could be bend by goverment, since for decades after the war we were under Soviet Union's thumb.
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weird_history
Several things that definitely AREN'T taught in most schools is the agreement to carve up Poland between the Nazis and the Soviet Union, the Winter War, aka the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland and the ass kicking they received there, and the Soviets' installing puppet governments in the liberated eastern Europen nations during their push towards Berlin.
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Several things that definitely AREN'T taught in most schools is the agreement to carve up Poland between the Nazis and the Soviet Union, the Winter War, aka the Soviet Union's invasion of Finland and the ass kicking they received there, and the Soviets' installing puppet governments in the liberated eastern Europen nations during their push towards Berlin.
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AndyS-kv2jh
I’m an American and where I went to school we were basically taught the US saved the world. I know there’s some truth in that with the Lend Lease program. We were never taught that the Soviet Union did most of the fighting and took the most casualties in Europe from 1941 to 1945. Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the Atom bomb were talked about a lot as well.
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I’m an American and where I went to school we were basically taught the US saved the world. I know there’s some truth in that with the Lend Lease program. We were never taught that the Soviet Union did most of the fighting and took the most casualties in Europe from 1941 to 1945. Pearl Harbor, D-Day, and the Atom bomb were talked about a lot as well.
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michaelball93
As a Brit, I remember my World War 2 education mostly revolving around the Blitz, rationing and life on the home front than the actual causes and battles of the war. We touched on Dunkirk and D-Day but that was about it. World War 1 education, on the other hand, is much more focused on the military and diplomatic side of things.
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As a Brit, I remember my World War 2 education mostly revolving around the Blitz, rationing and life on the home front than the actual causes and battles of the war. We touched on Dunkirk and D-Day but that was about it. World War 1 education, on the other hand, is much more focused on the military and diplomatic side of things.
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emmgeevideo
I went to Germany in 2013 when I first learned that German school children get such a thorough education about fascism, concentration camps, etc. Never again is the idea. God forbid we should have serious education and discussion of slavery and Jim Crow in the US. We don't want those poor little white kids feel uncomfortable.
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I went to Germany in 2013 when I first learned that German school children get such a thorough education about fascism, concentration camps, etc. Never again is the idea. God forbid we should have serious education and discussion of slavery and Jim Crow in the US. We don't want those poor little white kids feel uncomfortable.
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btetschner
Having ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating LUNCHABLES (Light Bologna & American with Chocolate Chip Cookies. while watching this Weird History video!
That is a Boy Scout/Girl Scout meal!
From the Weird history video How Lunchables Were Made By And For The 90s
It costed around $1. 46 on during a store sale.
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Having ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating LUNCHABLES (Light Bologna & American with Chocolate Chip Cookies. while watching this Weird History video!
That is a Boy Scout/Girl Scout meal!
From the Weird history video How Lunchables Were Made By And For The 90s
It costed around $1. 46 on during a store sale.
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theancientsam
rigid policy of isolationism
yeah right our president did everything he could to piss off japan so they would attack first, so america wouldnt look like the total bully that it is when it came into the war. and to think who did we fight for bankers so that they could keep printing money. and now look at where we are
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rigid policy of isolationism
yeah right our president did everything he could to piss off japan so they would attack first, so america wouldnt look like the total bully that it is when it came into the war. and to think who did we fight for bankers so that they could keep printing money. and now look at where we are
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larryjewell7048
Okay. The US was NOT strictly isolationist prior to WWII. The Committee to Defend America First never got a bill it supported passed by Congress. The Firsters never defeated a bill they opposed. The USN was practicing short of war in the Atlantic, harassing u-boats and responding if threatened by German warships.
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Okay. The US was NOT strictly isolationist prior to WWII. The Committee to Defend America First never got a bill it supported passed by Congress. The Firsters never defeated a bill they opposed. The USN was practicing short of war in the Atlantic, harassing u-boats and responding if threatened by German warships.
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btetschner
I am going to watch the videos:
x What It Was Like to Be an American G. I. in WWII (1st Recommendation, 2nd time watching)
x What Happened After the Attack on Pearl Harbor
x What Life Was Like for the Real Rosie the Riveter
x What Was Hygiene Like For US Soldiers In WWII
x ---TIMELINE 1999---
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I am going to watch the videos:
x What It Was Like to Be an American G. I. in WWII (1st Recommendation, 2nd time watching)
x What Happened After the Attack on Pearl Harbor
x What Life Was Like for the Real Rosie the Riveter
x What Was Hygiene Like For US Soldiers In WWII
x ---TIMELINE 1999---
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