a lot of the western world learns only speaks about ww2 (let alone ww1, americans civil war, etc.).

there has been countless western and non western wars with slightly different patterns and a taste of "winner writes history".

one i find interesting is the french revolution. its also fairly recent, but not as tampered with as ww2 history. for example, there still are records of how terrible and cruel the revolutionaries were, how everyone was a royalist that needed to die and how the populace started to be ready to revolt - again - right after the change of power. thankfully, things eventually calmed down - as they were cruel, but not dumb.

either way I'd basically recommend expending the reading curriculum a bit.

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permo-w 12 hours ago | parent [-]

what elements of WW2 history are you suggesting are most tampered with?

	▲	qcnguy 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The most obvious place would be the ideology of the Nazis. We're told they were in some sense right wing or "far right" and thus must be more extreme versions of the Republicans. The primary historical sources don't show that. They show the National Socialists running on an ultra-left wing platform as you'd expect, they called each other comrade, and the Nazis grew by converting communists and other far leftists. There is even a speech where Hitler says he welcomed the Bolsheviks into the party and that the Nazis were almost all left wing people in the early years, because he needed people who would beat up their enemies. It's in one of the table talks I think.