Erwin Rommel as peacekeeper
 

A friend posted this on his wall and I thought you had to see and hear this with your own eyes and ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImY0dMK_Upg

I frankly don't know what to say.

Markus

All I can do is: :har:

I liked the part where absolutely no one seemed to know anything about Rommel in the video.

I shouldn't laugh really because I remember asking my kids when they were at school age which side Japan was on during WWII and neither had a clue.

The history of WWII was simply not taught to them at school.

No kidding. History, it seems, is 2 weeks ago, tops, when you were born, if you're a pro DIY historian. I kid you not, some kids here answered Iraq and North Korea when the question was "which nations made up the Axis powers during WW2?". I'm surprised they didn't ask back "whaaah? They used axes in WW2?" :har:

Well, I learnt about WWII in school, so perhaps the problem is that it's taught but no-one is listening. :hmmm:

Rommel was a soldier.

Id like to see the civilians who send these soldiers to fight the wars they start. I think Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton would be a great choice, he's got skills, and a Lord which is a lot better than a lowly general, it would be a hoot. :Kaleun_Cheers:

Media at it's finest.
Shove the microphone into someones face while minding their own business and then out of 200 people showing only 5 of those that were either too shocked about the sudden intrusion into personal space or genuine idiots.

If a journalist did that to me I'd look like a mute because I'd be thinking about non-violent reactions to the microphone and camera wielding morons in front of me.

But that doesn't involve Kukris....:doh:

The last thing I want is the media here opening a debate on our lax knife laws.
Flash a kukri once and the population will get a regular brain wash until the laws state I cant own anything sharper than a mushroom

I think from all those people who fought and committed atrocities in WW2 Rommel will not be getting the badest of ranks, especially but not only because partaking in the assassination of he who may not be named.

Apart from that i would like to think of Rommel fight in Syria with state-of-the-art weapons, against the IS and Assad right now. In contrast to the current western "peacekeeping" he might accomplish something, and maybe even without attacking hospitals and killing civilians.

Regarding this video .. meh. Ask them if they would like to see Churchill commanding the ground troops in Syria.

I have two children in their mid 30's. I would bet my next weeks pay that either one of them doesn't know who Erwin Rommel was.

I try to remember my own school days and what we learned about WWII in history class

The only thing i can remember-when it started-German started then England and France declared war

Germany attack Russia

Japan attack USA

War ends in Europe

War ends in Pacific

But we didn't learn that much about generals, only who was in lead in major countries, like USA, England, Germany

It was my own huge interest in history, war history that made me search for more info about the war, that I read about Erwin Rommel and other German, English, American generals.( I didn't read so much about the Russian)

So the question is how much do we want the youth to know about WWII and how detailed has it to be ?

Markus

If they're anything like my two (mid 20's) I'd wager you were correct.