Local amateur historian and occasional beloved family member Paul Poppavich vehemently dismisses news of fascism’s rising international tide, despite an encyclopedic knowledge of World War II history.
  • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•8 months ago

    WW2 people missed WW2 coming and they’d just gotten out of WW1 twenty years prior.

    You can cut 70 year old History Channel nerds a bit of slack.

    • @Atrichum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•8 months ago

      I don’t have any sources at hand, but I’m pretty sure Europeans saw a second war with Germany coming years before it started.

      • @Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•8 months ago

        Nah. I hear the french actually just whipped up the maginot line the day before the war kicked off.