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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When/where did you learn about WWII?  I didn't learn (formally) until college when I took a class specifically about WWII.
My history classes in high school and earlier never went beyond reconstruction.  [/quote]

I learned the typical curriculum in US schools: US history, US govt, then world history which pretty much only talks about WW2 in Europe, the Holocaust, and Nazis.

The amount of education spent on WW2 in Asia and the Pacific amounts to a few paragraphs on the battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, and dropping nukes, and that's it.

I only recently started reading about Japanese invasions in Asia and all of the horrific brutalities committed by the Japanese by reading books on my own. I didn't even know 500k people died after the Yellow River was flooded to stop the Japanese, which is the greatest single environmental scortched Earth policy in human history. I mean I knew of the Rape of Nanking and Korean comfort women, but I never knew of the depths of Japanese depravity and barbarism compared to how much you were taught about the Nazis. The Japanese had concentration camps evrywhere too, were exterminating all sorts of cultures, and had many of the same exact policies as the Nazis, yet you are never taught about it. It's really remarkable too given that the US is responsible for something like 80% of all Japanese combat fatalities during WW2.  [/quote]

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