Throughlines of History & Making it Personal: WWII in Poland
This year, the world will commemorate the 85th anniversary of the start of the Second World War. There will be memorials and commemorations in nearly every country. Here in Italy, they have an entire annual national holiday for their Liberation Day. Standing amongst that history brings it into much shaper focus - cultivating an appreciation that is nearly impossible from books and movies. When standing IN history the divisions of political, economic, and social history blur. Human stories emerge. For Europe, WWII wasn't something happening elsewhere with the luxury of ignoring until it was personal. It was personal from the beginning. Liberation Day is celebrated annual in Italy on April 25th I know that my own depth of knowledge of World War II is deeper than the average American's but I also know it pales in comparison to the immense wealth of information available. I find the content overwhelming at times: political analytics, military strategy, technology, causality statis...