HITLER...WASN'T HE A SOCCER COACH?

Twelve per cent even believe Mc­Donald’s Gol­d­en Arches are a symbol of Remembrance Day and 40 per cent don’t know it falls on November 11.

A study by war veterans’ charity Erskin asked 2,000 children aged nine to 15 about both world wars.

A quarter thought a nuclear bomb was dropped on Pearl Harbor, one in 20 said the Holocaust was the celebration at the end of the war and one in 10 thought the SS was Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven.

One in 12 believed the Blitz was a huge clean-up operation in Europe after the Second World War.