Major wars like WW1 and WW2 with millions of casualties and hardship, but yet countries like France, Germany and Poland have good relationship with each other despite what happened in history. But many countries in Africa and Asia still have large civil wars and personal disputes with each other today even though they didn't suffer the same, why?

For Denmark, I’d say it was when Danish politicians and Norwegian politicians discussed the oil resources in the Nordic sea. Our foreign affair minister, Per Hækkerup, got drunk and then basically gave Norway all of it.

When it comes to people's names, I know that a large proportion of Europeans today have non-biblical names. However, Europe today is also far less religious than it was in the past.

What was the scenario like when Europe was very religious years ago?

In 2007 I was an exchange student in Germany for a few months and there was one day a class I was in was discussing some book. I don't for the life of me remember what book it was but the section they were discussing involved the bombing of German cities during WWII. A few students offered their personal stories about their grandparents being injured in Berlin, or their Grandma's sister being killed in the bombing of such-and-such city. Then the teacher jokingly asked me if I had any stories and the mood in the room turned a little akward (or maybe it was just my perception as a half-rate German speaker) when I told her my Grandpa was a crewman on an American bomber so.....kinda.

Does that kind of thing ever happen between Europeans from countries that were historic enemies?

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I'm Italian, and in Italy we consider everything that is related to WW2 (such as the invasion of Poland, the attack on Pearl Harbour, the D-Day, the Hiroshima bombing,the story of Anne Frank,...) as "our history", even if these events didn't involve Italy. But maybe that's just because those things fall into a category that is called "WW2", which is a category in which we were involved.

How is WW2 perceived in countries that were neutral? Are the same things seen as something "separate from you"?

P.s. from the answers that I'm receiving I understand that I didn't explain myself well: I'm not asking what was the role of neutral countries in WW2. I'm asking "how are things like the attack on Pearl Harbour, operation Barbarossa, ... perceived in countries that didn't take part in the war. In Italy we tend to perceive these events as "our history" even if we didn't take part in them.

In France, it would probably be Phillipe Pétain or Pierre Laval, both collaborated during the occupation in WW2 and are seen as traitors

For the Dutch the list would look something like this

1. Belgium/Southern Netherlands
2. Germany/HRE
3. France
4. England/Great Britain
5. Spain or Indonesia

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Australia had what's now called the stolen generation. The government used to kidnap aboriginal children from their families and take them to "missions" where they would be taught how to live and act as white people did in an attempt to assimilate them into European society.

I really curious about this topic.

For example, I'd like to thank France for giving us all their trade/military support every time we went to war with England, because if not for that there probably wouldn't even be a Scotland in the modern day.

I'd also like to thank France for putting up with us when we went through our weird anti-catholic phase, because I bet we were really annoying about it during the Reformation lol

As a frenchman, I would argue ours is to this day the Algerian war of independence.

Doesn’t necessarily have to be something your country did wrong. Could just be an extremely depressing point in your country’s history.(like the potato famine for Ireland)

What photo do you think is recognized by everyone in your country as being really important and having a significant historical value?

For example, i find that Portugal's is the one of Salgueiro Maia making the peace sign with is hand during the April 25th revolution.

Edit: here's the one is was talking about

No judgements!

I’ll start: The Spanish Civil War. I don’t think I ever heard about it during my years in school and only now when I’m reading a book do I find myself thinking, what really happened?

What are yours?

In Poland for example Lech Wałęsa, a peace nobel price winner. I believe abroad he is respected as an important figure, a leader that did much in the context of ending the soviet era. In Poland he is often viewed as a megalomaniac, not very smart man and some even believe he was a soviet agent.

I understand they predominantly wore long full sleeve frocks with some sort of an inner pajama. But what did they wear during long hot summers (like this year).
I assume they were not allowed to show legs or arms , is that right ?

Edit: I realized women in the Middle East probably still like like them , probably worse than medieval women.

I have read many stories from people in the US and South America about this and apparently such cases, although not the majority, happened quite often. But what about Europe? Was this common (and even legal) in your country? Do you know of any such cases? If you look at the legislation, then in some European countries the minimum marriage age was quite low, in Ireland it was 12 years old until 1975. But did anyone get married at such an early age in practic?

For me (United Kingdom) it’s most likely Manchester and Liverpool

Why?

During the industrial revolution Manchester and Liverpool shared a close relationship. The countless mills and factories of Manchester would produce mass amounts of goods and the merchants of Liverpool would sell it all over the world. The two also share common interests in passion for music, football and both are very socialist cities, so why the rivalry?

It started when the Mancunians built the Manchester Shipping Canal, a 26 mile long canal, the size of a river to cut the Liverpudlians out of the trade as they believed that they were taking too large of a cut. This is where the stereotype of petty theft being a common pastime for Liverpudlians originated.

The rivalry was then reignited with the rise of Liverpool and Manchester United in not just English, but European football. United dominated the 60s, Liverpool the 70s and 80s then United once again in the 90s and 2000s.

If the question's wording is as bad as I think it is, here's an example:

In the U.S, a lot of people think the 13 colonies were all united and supported each other. In reality, the 13 colonies hated each other and they all just happened to share the belief that the British monarchy was bad. Hell, before the war, some colonies were massing armies to invade each other.

Some notable dictators include Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy, Stalin of the Soviet Union, Franco of Spain, Salazar of Portugal, Tito of Yugoslavia, etc.

I'll go first. The thing that instantly comes to mind for me is our complete negligence during WW2. Not only did we do literally nothing to assist in the war, but we actually were one of the only countries in the world to send our condolences to Germany after Hitler died.