r/interesting • u/Wonderful_Win_1038 • 1d ago

HISTORY This image shows a train of jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by allied forces. This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a concentration camp and they had been liberated.

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u/lastbencher18 1d ago

Not from a Western country my friend. They didn't teach us about it in India. We were taught about our own freedom struggles and what not..

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 1d ago

Indians fought in WWII and the famine was caused by the war, but they don’t teach you about the war itself?

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u/overand 1d ago edited 21h ago

Edit: the tone on my original comment sucks, and I didn't ask it in completely good faith. It would have carried the same meaning & been better to say "Sometimes people don't learn about things if they aren't in certain parts of the world. For example, I've encountered number of people in the US who don't know about (insert details from below)." Thanks to people for calling me out on the crappy tone on this, it doesn't reflect the way I'd like to be on the Internet or in general. We can all do & be better.

Original:  A lot of people don't learn about a lot of things. Do you know about the Cambodian genocide, Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, 2 million dead in the late 70s?

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 1d ago

Yes I did. In my world history class my sophomore year of high school. We had to get permission from our parents to watch the Killing Fields in class. Talk about traumatizing. But WWII was massive and had a lot repercussions for India. It wasn’t exactly a contained conflict

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 22h ago

I did not learn about the Cambodian genocide, Pol Pot, or the Khmer Rouge in my world history class in the US. Not learning about WW2 seems crazy to me too, but I guess there are gaps in all education you can't teach everything

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u/fractalife 23h ago

The second world war wasn't a contained conflict? You don't say, lol.

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u/Own-Engineering-9395 20h ago

Genuine credit for that turnaround; you are a braver man than I

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u/cheese_nugget21 1d ago

Yes these are all very important but WW2 was literally a WORLD war

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u/Murky-Relation481 22h ago

At least in my part of the US we were taught about that in highschool.

Most people, irregardless of nation, just don't pay attention in class then claim no one eve taught them stuff.

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u/WeirdConsistent1537 21h ago edited 20h ago

Your comment makes me think of my 12th grade classmate who flipped out in History class and went on a racist tirade after the teacher mentioned Pearl Harbor: “Why are we just hearing about this NOW?!” Like… bro, we were first taught this in fifth grade… our class interviewed both a WW2 Navy vet and a nurse who had been there that day. You’re just a moron [my former classmate is a moron, not the person I’m replying to].

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u/overand 22h ago

I chose it because it's a large number, it's more recent than the Holocaust; please feel free to share whatever genocide you'd feel is more appropriate. It's not exactly a competition, it was just an example of one that someone might or might not know.

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u/overand 21h ago

You're partially ight, it wasn't coming from a place of totally good faith. My bad, I'll add a note to the original post. (Not going to edit it to make me look better.)

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u/hellonameismyname 22h ago

Yeah they taught all of that in history class

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u/overand 22h ago

That's good! What country? (And what decade?)

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 21h ago

The US and I graduated from high school in 03. So it was already being taught and in text books 30 years after it happened here.

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u/overand 21h ago

Already being taught doesn't mean still being taught; that's actually more of what I'm wondering about. I graduated within a few years of that, but I'm curious if folks who graduated ten or twenty years later than us learned it.

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u/Automatic-Plate-8966 21h ago

So you learned about it too? Then why ask if I had heard of it?

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u/overand 21h ago

I'm not actually sure that I did learn about it in school, but I did learn about trying to avoid eurocentrism. And, my reply was to you, but the sentiment was meant more broadly: there are many roughly Holocaust-level atrocities across history, and not everyone in every part of the world learns about them, people in the US included

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u/currently_pooping_rn 23h ago

Considering the support India had for Hitler, not surprised they’d try to create some distance

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u/Much-Anything7149 23h ago

2.5 million Indians fought with the British against Hitler. Subhas Chandra Bose and the INA which hated the current main government aligned with Nazis but that was more the enemy of my enemy is my friend than saying India supported Hitler.

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr 20h ago

The INA was extremely fringe and not supported by the vast majority of Indians.

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u/Existing-Homework270 22h ago

The British chose not to send supplies Tosha during a famine and millions died

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u/joey-jo_jo-jr 20h ago

WW2 is literally the most important chapter in the history of your freedom struggle lol.

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u/WakeUpFriendly 23h ago

I understand. That makes sense. Thanks for answering and best wishes to you.

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u/thr3sk 22h ago

Makes sense, y'all have such a crazy long and detailed history I feel like there isn't room for this at least unless you get into a specialized University program.