As a kid, events before you were born, even just one or two decades earlier, lie in an unimaginably distant past. For me, the Second World War was that long ago place. Whoever those people were in the black-and-white footage, living in unimaginably different times, bore little resemblance to the people around me, all these many years later – which is to say, less than two decades.
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