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Well, the generation who lived through it is still mostly alive (most were children back then), so that's not going to stop for a couple of decades. What else
by jotm 9y ago
Well, the generation who lived through it is still mostly alive (most were children back then), so that's not going to stop for a couple of decades.
What else are they going to entertain people with? WW1? Too bleak and short. Any American wars post WW2? Too boring and politically incorrect. Anything before WW1, nobody cares. WW2 was awesome if you watch it from a screen.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoMy German mother grew up in Germany during WW2 and its aftermath. My American father fought in WW2. For me, this isn't entertainment. More like therapy. I imagine it is pretty common for people to be fascinated in part out of a need to come to terms with their own past in some way, even when it isn't really recognized as such.
- musage 9y agoFor me I'd say part therapy, part responsibility. That Germany wasn't just razed to the ground.. non-withstanding all the criticism I have of the US, NATO, Russia, and pretty much everybody, that's dumb luck rather than deserved. To get another chance after something like that is not to be taken lightly. If I just try to take in the reality of what happened in places that I can still physically see, try to realize that from some of the buildings from before the war, people were dragged screaming, surrounded by gleeful displays of sadism from their torturers, while the neighbors were either scared and crying, or grinning and thinking about how they could profit from assets that no longer have an owner, that alone is enough. > The highest what one can achieve [in regards to this past] is to know and to bear that it was like this and not different, and to then wait and see what follows from that. -- Hannah Arendt