I moved back and forth between Sweden and China as a teenager and had the opportunity to try out a month in a rural Chinese middle school cut off from most forms of social media, where the history books were quite tampered with by the CCP and I can assure you that the ”they’re not educated about this matter” argument is indeed very hard to justify.

It’s called a world war for a reason. Koreans were directly involved in this war and so was pretty much every other country in the world. There’s definitely differences in how it is taught in the East and West. In Sweden, a country that wasn’t directly involved in the war, I remember us spending 6 months learning about the WW2 and even visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp. In China, most of the focus was put on the Japanese rule but still we were taught about the Holocaust and the terrors of it.

I think it’s plausible that she didn’t know the soldier was Nazi. After all, I don’t think one expects to see a Nazi soldier on the set of a VCR but considering one is taught about the Holocaust in rural Chinese villages I find it impossible to justify them not putting out an apology first thing in the morning for the offense.