The guy who wrote it is American - they might not be taught anything like that in school at all given the racial divide that exists over there (assumption).

I agree with you Jim. There's only so much time and the World Wars are certainly the two most catastrophic events that have ever happened to humanity, and especially to Europe. Also - my grandparents were young adults when WWII happened. My parents grew up with the consequences and half of Europe is still affected by a certain Ribbentrop - Molotov Pact.

Yet when we are talking about millions of people being tortured, humiliated, starved, experimented on, and killed - the reason should be nothing but a footnote. We don't talk about it because those people were a different race and it happened quite a long way from our backyard. Also, there haven't been global voices equivalent to the one of, say, Elie Wiesel to make sure that people don't forget such atrocities. But it is what it is I guess, and I wouldn't know how it should be addressed differently...which is a bit of a sad state of affairs.