Archipeligo was a lot of dry reading. Won’t strike a cord even though the author continued to warn us. Anne Applebaum wrote another. Different things in different camps. Still 500+ pages long. I often wonder how many missing americans were imprisoned there? POW’s from more than 1 war?
“I was talking to a twenty three year-old nurse two days ago, and she had absolutely no idea what D-Day was and It’s importance in Our history. Sad to say the least.”
Around 25 years ago I was talking to 3 middle school teachers and asked them what the single most important event of the 20th century was.
Their answers were all very pc such as the civil rights movement and such.
One did mention the atomic bomb.
I asked them if they thought WWII should make the list. After all England lost it’s empire, Germany was divided, Japan was conquered and occupied for the first time in it’s history, most of the worlds major economies were in ruins, the US and USSR became the sole super powers, etc.
They looked at me with blank faces until one finally said “but that was so long ago”.
That was 25 years ago. I can’t imagine how ignorant the teachers are now.
Sad indeed.