American Girl Discovers Who Firebombed Dresden
A walking tour in Dresden, 2014. Guide keeps mentioning the firebombing. American girl in her 20s raises her hand: "sorry, who firebombed Dresden?"
The silence that followed said everything about American history education.
Dresden was rebuilt surprisingly recently
A single anecdote that perfectly captures the gap between American self-perception and what Americans actually know about their own country's wartime history.
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