If I may, in fact WW2 seems to have little relevance today. Hitler and Nazism are dead, The Soviet Union is gone, the British and French Empires have dissolved too, almost all central and western Europe are meshed into a democratic embrace, etc etc, so why bother with an old war, as relevant today as the Napoleonic Wars?

That old sentence "Those who forget history tend to repeat it" or words to that effect. We live in an unstable world, dictatorships are alive and prosper everywhere. There is a veneer of democracy, but we don't know when and where it will crack.

Who will be Putin's successor, another Lukashenka? Is the Balkan mess solved? Hardly. India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons. India's sensibility tradition (to avoid the word 'democracy') seems well entrenched, but Pakistan has a pronunciamento every few years, will the next one be a hothead? Another Amahdinejad, as if one was not enough? Africa needs no excuses to spontaneously ignite, big Nigeria and Congo are close to the boiling point. Mandela, Tutu, Sithole are very old already, once the national consciences are gone what will the future bring, more Mugabes?

So you see, we can't forget about the recent past, we need to look at it in order to extract lessons, for the present is so volatile!

Thank you very much for your concern, Submerge. You have a conscience, something we don't see every day.

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