Excellent post...

[Bootie]

I also post over at www.ww2talk.com and came across this thread by von Poop. Very good question put forward dont you agree.

Will age ever weary the subject?
How long will WW2 remain such a massive worldwide interest?

There've been countless other wars in every generation, Peninsular, Boer, ECW, ACW, trojan, etc. etc. But all can perhaps now be described as relatively minor interests when compared to the massive & deeply ingrained coverage of WW2. From the Universities & serious amateurs, all the way down to the trashier mass-market documentaries, with a hundred points in between.

Will it ever pass into a minority interest?
Does there have to be another World war for this one to have a chance of being eclipsed, or finally fading into obscurity?
Is the exceptionally wide interest in it here forever?

 

[PoorOldSpike]

Just as interest in the high drama of Shakespeare's plays will be maintained forever, so will interest in WW2..

"How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" (Julius Caesar Act 3 scene 1)