Anyone else feel WWI doesn't receive the attention it deserves?

[Duuring]

Are you really teached to feel guilty? :p

[Olafson]

Not directly, but their intention behind it is to let us feel guilty for it. They obviously do not say: "you should feel guilty!" but indirectly they do.

[Docm30]

It's still better than the Japanese method of teaching that they've never done anything wrong at all.

[Olafson]

True. Though, people also seem to forget that the Japanese or Russians committed war crimes as well. Might be because Germany is the only country actually telling people about the crimes and actually feeling sorry for it.

[MazZ]

What I as a Belgian saw in history classes about WW1:

- Trench warfare
- How Belgium got raped multiple times
- Start of the holocaust (visiting museums and such)
- Generally what countries that were involved
- How it all started
- And maybe a few things about the guns and machines they used back then and some battles but nothing to spectacular really

[Duuring]

Unless you mean the Armenian genocide, I'm not sure what the Holocaust has to do with WW1.

[Jefferson]

Not directly, but their intention behind it is to let us feel guilty for it. They obviously do not say: "you should feel guilty!" but indirectly they do.

Heh, it's the same for British schools with the Slave Trade, and I have a sneaking suspiscion that the whole British Empire based unit I'm taking next year will have a similar vein.

[Docm30]

That's odd; the Kingdom of Britain was the second country in Europe (after Poland-Lithuania) to ban slavery and did far more than any other country in history to end the global slave trade. You'd think the British would, in their typical fashion, teach that they were among the least worst when it came to slavery. Not good, certainly, but far from the worst.

[Duuring]

We are learned we (The Dutch) started it, and then they explain how the trade worked. Good attention is given how much these people suffered, but I don't remember anything even remotely hinting we should feel sorry about it.

[Hadhod]

Are you really teached to feel guilty? :p

Yep, we are not directly but you can see it in the way we concentrate on the subject National Socialism etc. (just like Olafson said already).
I guess it still has to be done, I mean in the eyes of many people outside of Germany we are seen as Nazis, especially our politicians...

[Suede]

Since we here in Ukraine had more important wars and events when Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire crashed at the end of WW1, and were in USSR for several decades - yes, it doesn't

[Jelly]

Here in the UK we learnt very little about WW1, in fact I can't even remember being taught it at all. My brother was once told who was on each side, but he insisted that Italy was in the Central Powers so I doubt they taught him well... When I chose to do GCSE History (High school qualification) we spent quite a bit of time on Treaty of Versailles, St. Germain, Neuilly, Sevres etc etc. Nothing on the actual war itself though.

Same. Damn British Education! They only teach us about Britain no other countrie's History!

Actually, for GCSE, we've done about Germany, Hitler's rise to power and the League of Nations, nothing about Britain!

[Riddlez]

Well. Riddlez History lessons about WW1 and WW2 were taken here.

Where Riddlez goes to school (Holland), we are only told politics. Nothing. Else. It it such a pain in the arse!
The word 'tactic' is barely used. Only reasons for war, and the effects of it.

And that also goes for: Napoleonic wars, Russian Revolution, Afghan war, Israeli wars.

It's the reason Riddlez didn't choose Hostory as a subjec. While Riddlez enjoys history very much, but, war history.

AFAIK, the only place where military history is taught, is at the military academy.

[MazZ]

Unless you mean the Armenian genocide, I'm not sure what the Holocaust has to do with WW1.

Believe it or not, the holocaust has its roots in (more at the end of) WW1.

[Duuring]

Roots, yes. But the holocaust is not a part of WWI, and I don't think it should be addressed too much when going over the subject of the first world war. It's like talking about the entire Napoleonic war when your actual subject is the American war of Independence.

Instead, when a teacher is talking about the holocaust as a subject, he should try and look back and see the reasons of it. You can easily go back to the middle ages when talking about its roots.