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because there are issues that are still sensitive, and the government wishes to bury them, and conceal the truth, and not make people aware of their shortcomings or political blunders, hence the true facts of this will never be revealed in schools,

at the end of the war on churchill's explicit instructions, none of the allied forces were allowed to take place in the victory parade through london, inferring we've used you now get out of the way scum, whilst we take the honors, and this included the polish and czech republic pilots

churchill signed poland over to russia, contrary to previous assurances of support for freedom,

churchill had the sas assassination squads thrown into prison, instead of being made into national heroes as promised, to prevent them from diverting any of the glory away from himself, under the guise of them being to dangerous to decommission,

churchill had thousands of war orphans, and children from impoverished homes, forceable rounded up, even though they had relatives willing to look after them, and sent to austraila, to be used as lackeys and slaves by austrailian farmers, which included sexual abuse, the austrailan prime minister made a public apology for this treatment about two years ago,

you may also care to reflect that alan turing who cracked the code on the german enigma machines, was forced to undergo chemical castration by the government, or face imprisonment after the war, the british prime minister apologized for this treatment he had to endure about two years ago,

people who's forefathers died during the war for something they believed in, are contemptuous that those who took the laurels were cowered under 200 feet of reinforced concrete, barking orders, and then ensured those who's massive contribution to the war effort shortened it by years were kicked aside and publicity humiliated. this is not what they died for, but a country that used to reward its distinguished hero's, or to allow it to become open house for all and sundry who wish to sponge on the welfare state.

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Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed.

I have no idea, they only teach our contribution and I'm not even sure if they teach us about America's contribution, although we do also study America from 1900 - 1999. Personally, I think we should be taught about the British empire on an objective and non-biased basis, and then also taught about WW1, and WW2 with the commonwealth and American contributions.

World history should also be studied as not to be ignorant.

WW2 is taught as part of the National Curriculum in all UK

schools.

West Indians and people from all Commonwealth nations

fought for the Allies and made a significant sacrifice to support

the motherland as the UK used to be called.

If you Google World War 2 in the National Curriculum you will

find what you are looking for.

However, the prejudice of ignorant individuals will always haunt

us, little we can do about their lack of intelligence.

Also have a look at:

http://www.4mation.co.uk/cat/curriculumlinks/evacu...

It is - loads of Qs posted on Yahoo Answers in the Homework section. You can hardly study Overlord without realising the contribution of Canadian and ANZAC forces as well as Allied troops. Or that the Japanese declared war on the British Empire as well as America.

I get the impression British teaching was a little more balanced on the matter of the Soviets involvement than you might have found elsewhere - but perhaps that was just a Cold War thing.

People of the sort you describe are ignorant of many facts (including what membership of the EU entails, or the legacy of a colonial past) so it should be hardly surprising that they trot out the kind of crap you mention.

As far as I am aware both the Great War and WWII are still taught and constantly reminded.

At my High School Assembly Hall there were great wooden panels that had lists of all of the names of all of the fallen 'old boys' and the wars they had fallen in.

What is happening in the media is entirely a different matter if there is no 'sensation' there is no story to many of them and you are relegated to watch the History Channel

Chetak

It is taught in british schools, my grand daughter is 10 and done it last year,including the commonwealth contribution, and when she got home we went online and found out more about it,she went to the imperial war museum and learnt about the holocaust too, children are not ignorant about these things, she has just started doing world leaders, including martin luther king, gandhi, and winston churchill also haille selassie,her school is very good . she came across a reference to rosa parks and she was appalled that people were treated so badly just because they were black.

What is the correlation between lets say , an Indian fighting the Japanese in Burma and uncontrolled immigration into an already overcrowded little island. there is none.

They were part of an Empire, that they now no longer belong to, and were duty bound to fight on the side of England.With Independence, the rights to free entry vanished.

Actually, World War 2 is an important part of British history and is indeed taught in both public and private schools.

It is from the Indian armies fighting the Japanese, Canadian navy conducting convoys, West Indians serving in the RAF, Australians in North Africa, Kiwis in Italy, of course there are more contributions which aren't taught, but that is more due to lack of space in a curriculum. But that won't completely prevent racism.