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<blockquote data-quote="RareBreed" data-source="post: 9068340" data-attributes="member: 6945590"><p>Yes, I mentioned some of this in an <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/take-world-war-ii-to-your-rpg-night-with-war-stories.698597/post-9067584" target="_blank">earlier reply on this thread</a>. Like how the French used the pretext of the killings of Catholics in the mid 1800s to control Vietnam, and a reversal where the Catholics persecuted the Buddhists so that Ngo Diem could help his Arch Bishop brother (the famous picture of a Buddhist monk burning himself alive was not a protest against the French, Americans or Communists, but against the Catholic persecution of Buddhists).</p><p></p><p>And yeah, pulling the thread back is useful when examining all of history. In many ways, WW2 was a continuation of WW1, and the onerous burdens placed on Germany through the Treaty of Versailles. And then you can look at the causes of WW1 itself, which, though often blamed on entangling alliances has other root causes as well.</p><p></p><p>I have often told people who don't like history: "You don't know where you are, unless you know where you have been. And you can't know where you are going, unless you know where you are". Or sometimes, as George Santayana said "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RareBreed, post: 9068340, member: 6945590"] Yes, I mentioned some of this in an [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/take-world-war-ii-to-your-rpg-night-with-war-stories.698597/post-9067584']earlier reply on this thread[/URL]. Like how the French used the pretext of the killings of Catholics in the mid 1800s to control Vietnam, and a reversal where the Catholics persecuted the Buddhists so that Ngo Diem could help his Arch Bishop brother (the famous picture of a Buddhist monk burning himself alive was not a protest against the French, Americans or Communists, but against the Catholic persecution of Buddhists). And yeah, pulling the thread back is useful when examining all of history. In many ways, WW2 was a continuation of WW1, and the onerous burdens placed on Germany through the Treaty of Versailles. And then you can look at the causes of WW1 itself, which, though often blamed on entangling alliances has other root causes as well. I have often told people who don't like history: "You don't know where you are, unless you know where you have been. And you can't know where you are going, unless you know where you are". Or sometimes, as George Santayana said "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it". [/QUOTE]
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