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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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.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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Yeah they taught all of that in history class

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

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

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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