My Dad and uncle graduated from Army Air Corps training the day before Pearl Harbor.
Yes, our society has largely forgotten.
Our children are not taught history in a meaningful, understanding way. They memorize some names and dates, if that.
Instead we have, via “free speech” a cottage industry of holocaust denial conspiracy theories, and Nazi parades. We have an avowed nationalist as an illegitimate president, who (before dementia) read Hitler speeches.
We. Have. Forgotten.