93-year-old holds a "STOP THE GESTAPO" protest sign in haverford, PA

[soldierant]

6. People in their nineties and late eighties -

even if they were not old enough to serve in the military were definitely old enough to have seen news articles and newsreels. I imagine the newsreels made a huge impression.

I wasn;t born till between VE and VJ days, but I had a good education and did a lot of reading on my own as well. Strange though it may sound, if one (and especially a young and impressionable one) read British cozy mysteries written in the late 30s and 40s, one got a real sense of how it felt to be on the home front of a war which was virtually next door.