Do you know when WW2 started....if so, you know more than some of the Apprentice candidates?

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DS was quite shocked last night when watching it. They had to get an Alice in Wonderland book that was printed before WW2 started.

I know it was a long time ago - but it did shape the world, especially modern Europe.

Do you know when WW2 is said to have started 'officially' in Europe?

The level of thick routinely displayed on most reality style TV is a damning indictment of much of the population. Even if they happened to be off school each time WWII was mentioned then surely they would have seen a TV program, or watched a film, or seen a media headline, or seen a war memorial, or read a magazine article, or heard song lyrics that mentioned war dates? I would hate to spend any time inside these people's heads it must be such a barren, asinine landscape of shallow thoughts.

As they say - parents generation worried about world war, our generation worried about nuclear wipeout (and save the whales) - this generation panicks about WiFi signal dropping and misgendering... (yes I know we all are concerned about global warming but that’s not a generational a thing).

Eh? Who says this? This generation quite clearly does have things to worry about, from the creeping rise of the far right to terrorist attacks, with plenty more.

But if it didn't, would that not be a great thing?

There's always "How didn't you know that?" Moment in The Apprentice. Is this the buy X items task by any chance?
I remember one where they had to buy a kosher chicken in Marrakech and the Jewish contestant bought his from a Halal butcher so it wasn't slaughtered correctly.

I didn't learn about WW2 at school but have absorbed an awful lot about it despite that. As others have said, it is everywhere in this country.

DD does know but tells me that she will learn about it in school in yr6. I'm trying to work out how I've failed to get her to absorb the basics already. Especially as her grandparents lived through it. She does know what poppies are about though.

I think the shock was that the entire team had no idea! While they might have all been an age nit to learn it at school its more surprisi g that none of them had any other points of reference eg relatives having been in the war, remembering variousvery well documented anniversaries, looking at war memorials, watching the history channel etc.

@ForalltheSaints I had never heard of this either although DH had heard of it but not what it was exactly.

I could tell at least the years of the war, they thought it would be all over by Christmas....

We are in Aus, where European history is not specifically taught.

Asked my 11 year old when the war was and she said 1914-1918- because it has been marked hugely here (Anzac and Gallipoli).
When I said no the other war, her answer was 'about 1940 to 1946? So not all are as lacking in interest as the Apprentice numbnuts.