While we in  Britain were living in blissful or at least relative oblivion of the horrors taking place in occupied Europe in the thirties and forties, we were spared and to a large extent unaware of the wholesale massacre taking place in Central and Eastern European unequaled in the history of the world, And thank goodness for that. We all tell ourselves stories about the war and you will never catch me decrying the bravery of our troops. But not at the expense of repeating the same mistake 80 years down the line.