70th anniversary of the start of World War II
WWII started on Sept 1st 1939 when Nazi-Germany invaded Poland and more than 60 million people lost their lives during this war.
After 70 years the question why Hitler wasn’t stopped still remaines.
Nazi Germany brought the Second World War on themselves, the rest of Europe and the World. Yes, they opened Pandora’s Box.
I think that many children and students (and people in general) in many countries are not given the right presentation of the world’s history, most often large chucks of it are left out. There needs to be an awareness of this so people can know the full scope of what happened at this time. No one should be ignorant of history regardless of whose “fault” the event was.
We cannot expect to progress if we do not objectively accept both the good and bad of our past. I already posted a blog about this… here is the link
Some historical facts about Germany WWII (with documentaries)
Spiegel online has a WWII archive with many related articles, interviews, opinions also about the upcoming ” final Nazi trial” in October this year.
They wrote a two series article “Why Hitler wasn’t stopped” and “How appeasement failed to stop Hitler”
And also published an interview with Richard von Weizsäcker (former German president) who was a soldier in WWII about his own experiences….
…. as well as “The revenge on Ethnic Germans and how a Czech town is still divided over how to commemorate the 1945 massacre”
This is not the only massacre that happened… like I said above there needs to be awareness of the full scope of what happened at this time, no matter what happened and who did it. Germany has already acknowledged the crimes of WW2, it’s time for Czechs to do the same in that area. It’s called balance, it’s called the rule of law. Acknowledge it, put it away and move on…. and I repeat myself: “We cannot expect to progress if we do not objectively accept both the good and bad of our past” and that applies to everyone imho.
