I agree and I’d like to add that education systems that treat WW2 as the war to understand is actively harmful.
In part due to characteristics of the war and in part due to how it is taught and remembered.
Just 2 examples
WW2 can be quite easily presented as having clear good guys and bad guys which makes it fairly unhelpful to study to understand modern conflicts.
Chamberlain is consistently painted as a naive idiot for trying to prevent a war through diplomacy. Whether or not it was futile in that case isn’t really relevant, when WW2 is the only war most people study in any depth then all attempts at avoiding conflict get characterised as naive appeasement.
I agree and I’d like to add that education systems that treat WW2 as the war to understand is actively harmful.
In part due to characteristics of the war and in part due to how it is taught and remembered.
Just 2 examples