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Stealhead · 01-21-13, 09:51 AM

I know there are some Germans on here so they can answer it better.As I recall when I was stationed in Germany they did learn about the Holocaust in great detail in fact I am fairly sure that it in their laws that they must learn about it and the general effect of Hitler and all.

It is also illegal to display a swastika or anything specifically related to the Nazi party.You can get arrested for it.I never even saw neo Nazis display any but they would use emblems in the old style writing used during that time and hide SS in some other name so the shirt they wear has lots of letters on it but the important part says something like "Deutschland SS".

In Japan they don't really learn much factual I know this because a friends wife is Japanese she said that they basically have this stylized view of what Japan did during the war kind of middle groundish and idealized and pro Japanese.So it is up to the Japanese person themselves to learn the truth or follow a different line.There are a lot of Japanese that are very much aware of what happened including the atrocities at the same time there are many that have an idealized view.

The rest of Asia was either victims of Japan or a colony of Great Britain or the US or the Neatherlands in which case they generally have the Allied view of the war.China most certainly learns a lot they being most victimized by the Japanese.In Chinese schools all children learn about the American Volunteer Group better known as the Flying Tigers because their actions saved China from being cut off.If you ask an American kid what the AVG or the Flying Tigers where they will have no idea in most cases ask a Chinese kid and they will know what you are talking about.

Also a little known fact about China is that the Communists where much more determined to fight the Japanese than the Kuomintang where and they would go far out of their way to help American aircrews get back to their base even if it was 1,000 miles out of their way most American pilots felt that the general populace was better treated in Communist controlled areas of China.

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I know there are some Germans on here so they can answer it better.As I recall when I was stationed in Germany they did learn about the Holocaust in great detail in fact I am fairly sure that it in their laws that they must learn about it and the general effect of Hitler and all. It is also illegal to display a swastika or anything specifically related to the Nazi party.You can get arrested for it.I never even saw neo Nazis display any but they would use emblems in the old style writing used during that time and hide SS in some other name so the shirt they wear has lots of letters on it but the important part says something like "Deutschland SS". In Japan they don't really learn much factual I know this because a friends wife is Japanese she said that they basically have this stylized view of what Japan did during the war kind of middle groundish and idealized and pro Japanese.So it is up to the Japanese person themselves to learn the truth or follow a different line.There are a lot of Japanese that are very much aware of what happened including the atrocities at the same time there are many that have an idealized view. The rest of Asia was either victims of Japan or a colony of Great Britain or the US or the Neatherlands in which case they generally have the Allied view of the war.China most certainly learns a lot they being most victimized by the Japanese.In Chinese schools all children learn about the American Volunteer Group better known as the Flying Tigers because their actions saved China from being cut off.If you ask an American kid what the AVG or the Flying Tigers where they will have no idea in most cases ask a Chinese kid and they will know what you are talking about. Also a little known fact about China is that the Communists where much more determined to fight the Japanese than the Kuomintang where and they would go far out of their way to help American aircrews get back to their base even if it was 1,000 miles out of their way most American pilots felt that the general populace was better treated in Communist controlled areas of China.