When I was about 6 or 7 in around 1977 I always thought that everyone over the age of 20 had been involved in the Second World War and would often ask my parent's friends if they had ever killed a German.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- My wife thought she was Elvis mother when she was 4. It was 1977 the same year he died. — sister vanilla
- I used to think it was illegal to speak German in Germany because of World War Two.— Anonymous
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- I thought that smoking pot involved an actual pot from the kitchen.— Aeris
- I thought sadism involved being sad and depressed. Obvious, I think.— ]_]
- I thought break dancing involved actually breaking stuff!— Sydle