How can you be 43 and not know who Hitler was and what he did?

[no_hypocrisy]

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My friend has a son who is 43. He is a single father (wife left him), only has a HS education, and is a driver for a transport company.

He was approached by coworkers in the warehouse who apparently are either Proud Boys or something like them. They started talking about nationalistic USA and were "envious" of his German heritage. They told him of all the good things Hitler (and Trump) did.

This guy is admittedly not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He listened. They sent him videos and texts and he looked at them. And he accepted it all without a filter.

It got to the point where he texted a photo of Hitler at Nuremberg to his aunt's husband, who is not only elderly and German, but grew up during the Nazi years in Germany. (He truly believed his uncle would be "pleased" with his interest in his German heritage.) The uncle's head flew off and really yelled at his "nephew".

His mother's father dropped out of HS at age 17 to enlist to fight the Nazis. (He was in the Second Battle of the Bulge.)

And when asked, the guy had no idea of Hitler, the Holocaust, the Nazi regime whatsoever. And I believe him. He IS that stupid.

And therefore, I wonder how he went K-12 without a single minute dedicated to Hitler, the Nazis, the concentration camps, the Jews, the Holocaust -- and what about his family? His father is the son of two German immigrants from the Twenties. His father said nothing to him?

This guy has transferred to a new location with a new warehouse, ironically in a region with a concentrated Orthodox Jewish demographic.

I don't get it. I just don't get it.