Article: Lest we forget... there is a war on; Afghan conflict is here and now.(Features)

Byline: Lesley Roberts

I HAVE never asked my sixyear- old son if he knows who Adolf Hitler is. Why should I darken his wee world of Transformers and Ben 10 with the news that a real-life man could be much more evil than any cartoon monster?

But he will have to be told when he is a little bit older because millions of people gave up their lives to give him a better one. And he should know that. Turns out, though, that kids much older than mine think that Hitler was a German football coach and the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war.

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