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In reply to the discussion: Yes DU trends to an older audience. [View all]wnylib
(23,671 posts)Their ignorance of that history makes us sitting ducks for a repeat.
I made it a point to learn about it beyond the skimpy history that I got in high school. I was motivated by personal reasons. My mother's parents were immigrants to the US from Germany as very young children decades before the first World War. Some of my older relatives had visited their relatives in Germany and still corresponded with them up until WWI, and then again prior to WWII. My mother's brother served in the US Army in Europe and was captured. He spent 2 years in a German POW camp and suffered from PTSD the rest of his life.
My father's mother died when I was very young. My grandfather's significant other while I was growing up was a Jewish woman who had no extended family because they had all died in the Holocaust.
I wanted answers to how and why it happened. And I used to think about what I would do if something similar happened in the US. But I didn't think that it really was possible here. Now I know that it is. And it MUST be stopped.