I would say that it probably is taught in schools. I mean, we had a whole paragraph about it in our history textbook in the WWII chapter! /sarcasm Though that's probably gotten better now.
With our kids, WWII is the only part of history they know anything about because of movies and video games. The problem tends to be that they have so much other stimuli that whatever they get taught only gets half-absorbed, and a bunch are also getting alternative facts from the intertubes. So they are unsure why the Nazis were bad.
If I teach a lesson or show a video, guaranteed I have 10-20% of their attention, and I like to think I'm a pretty good teacher and they're vaguely interested in the subject matter. In history, with an average teacher? They're unlikely to recall any facts past the final exam.
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With our kids, WWII is the only part of history they know anything about because of movies and video games. The problem tends to be that they have so much other stimuli that whatever they get taught only gets half-absorbed, and a bunch are also getting alternative facts from the intertubes. So they are unsure why the Nazis were bad.
If I teach a lesson or show a video, guaranteed I have 10-20% of their attention, and I like to think I'm a pretty good teacher and they're vaguely interested in the subject matter. In history, with an average teacher? They're unlikely to recall any facts past the final exam.