Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:59 am
When I was a kid, if you wanted to know about the war you asked your dad or one of your uncles.
Having done so I always viewed the 'war comics' with some disgust.
Being slightly younger, I used watching The World at War to give me my basic grounding in the events. My parents were children during the war and had mixed experiences, my father evacuated to several locations and did not have a pleasent time, my mother stayed put and apart from being close to a V2 dropping in January 1945 survived unscathed.My only surving Grandpa was the local ARP warden (he was in a reserved occupation) and had to identify the recovered bodies and so never really talked about the war except in very general terms until some 40 years later when the local newspaper, which he had printed every week, ran a story on what happened. It was the first tme me and my cousin heard what happened.
As for those much younger than me who wrap themselves in Blitz spirit and Actung Spitfuer, it is clear they have very little knowledge of what actually happened and how whilst the country did pull together in a collective effort, those that had some money could keep themselves more comfortable than those who did not.
They also forget when they bang on about getting rid of the ECHR that the Charter was drafted by Sir David Maxwell-Ffyfe, a Conservative Attorney-General ( in the days when it was treated as the office it is the Government's chief lawyer) a Conservative Home Secretary, and then when he became Lord Kilmuir a Conservative Lord Chancellor. Sir david was part of Sir Hartley Shawcross's teamwho prosecuted at Nuremburg.
It is interesting that education policy from this government has reduced the learning of history to being able to recite by rote the monarchs of this country and has done away with researching what happened and more importantly why it happened.
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