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

[TigressDem]

33. Depends on the High School and what Reagonomics did to it here in the US.

I grew up in California and at 18 didn't realize HOW impactful Reagan's stupidity would be. I had not realized that all the horrible that happened to California schools was his doing along with Howard Jarvis and Prop 13 in 1978.

Prop 13 took away arts in the schools as unnecessary. It began the road to take away "free JR College" (The AA degree basically at a community college) for residents of California. It went from one of the BEST examples of public education to a piece of crap for people who couldn't afford the price of admission.

SOME of my education about the Holocaust was from the Diary of Ann Frank, which was not only something we read, but we watched a movie and even old news reels about the camps.

Schindler's List would be the more recent equivalent. I was never a WWII buff, but it seemed like learning about that part of history wasn't simply a part of school but a part of the whole American conversation. The idea of denying the Holocaust seems insane to me because there is so much "proof" and LIVING BREATHING PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED IT.

But my Dad was in Korean Conflict and I don't know the extent of that terror because he went there and came back not wanting to talk about it like a lot of soldiers do.