I was born and raised in Britain and my parents were both involved in the war. I have lived in Germany since the 70s and most of my contemporaries here don't have much idea, especially of the first World War. (For example, driving home from the UK through Belgium in 2014, I was keen to see Ypres. My husband had no idea what it was.)
I'm not sure what the question is. But we can't expect the Second World War to have exclusive rights to the expression "The War" any more. So many other wars have raged since, and are all important to the people who lived through them. Similarly, we have no reason or right to be surprised when youngsters, on hearing the expression "between the wars", ask "which wars?".
Closest to me (geographically) are the Yugoslavian events, which especially bring home the fact that we were very, very lucky not to have had a violent revolution in 1989.
That was probably due to the fact that Tito was still alive and keeping Yugoslavia together and under this thumb, while Germany and the rest of Central Europe had been getting on with it since the war. Even Russia had toned things down by then.
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