How can you be 43 and not know who Hitler was and what he did?

[dembotoz]

25. towards the back of the book and the class never reached it

History is always taught the same. french explorers, spanish explorers, chris columbus..blah blah blah. Every year every class the teacher would run out of time...Along comes May and just starting the civil war.
Every damn year....I would see the chapters in the text but we never got to them.

was there a reason? uncomfortable truths? I lived in Milwaukee which was rather german. In jr high and high school i learned German not Spanish. Conspiracy? I doubt it.

How did i learn? Born in 53 so there were still tons of ww2 movies...Some accurate, some not.
The big time bad guys were the russians...still are i guess. Some ww2 history would be brought in the explain all that.
My parents generation never really talked much about it. at least not while the kids were around.
Found out later as an adult that a family friend who endured the interment camps was actually a BIG time war hero. I never knew.

Advance another 50 years.....America gains more history to be taught. More stuff to be taught is same amount of time....
Hell they don't even show war movies anymore on memorial or veterans day....

could a kid make it thru high school being ignorant? Sure, why not.