FILE - In this Wednesday, March 18, 2020, file photo, a woman wearing a protective face mask to prevent the new coronavirus outbreak walks by a propaganda poster with a word "Wear" outside a residential building in Beijing. World War II references are now heard daily, not because another momentous 75th anniversary, Victory in Europe Day approaches in May but because of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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Virus causes surge in WW II references, but is it merited?
LONDON (AP) — In the first week of June 2019, World War II was on many people's minds.