When I was growing up, none of this stuff was ever discussed. If it was discussed at school, it went over my head. and was certainly not discussed at home. I wasn’t politically aware until I was about thirty.
Maybe it was a function of the 50s. Living under the threat of nuclear annihilation and communism may have dampened dissent. Though I remember thinking when I was 5 that Hitler was just another name for the devil. You can imagine where I got that. :p
When I was a kid, we talked about nuclear war, too. Somehow, I learned that what kids think is ignorant, but they can grow up and have something to contribute.
The more I think about my parents, the better they look.