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# Denomination Day, when Tony Blair's grandad attacked Iraq's king in Japan
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/06/denomination_da/
- Published: 2004-06-02T10:51:45.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:54:16.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

[Frightening work](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=14291825&method=full&siteid=50143&ref=onemanandhisblog.com "D-Day Dunces") from the now Morgan-free *Daily Mirror* on young people’s knowledge of D-Day.

> *6\. Who the leader of Germany at the time?*
> 
> ANSWER: Adolf Hitler.
> 
> DUNCE: Hannah Gray, a 24-year-old advertising executive, said: “Was it a king? I don’t know. Can I phone a friend?”

Of the 1,000 under-24s they questioned 73% did not know what it was, when it happened or who was involved.