In principle very true. The problem is, by todays standarts most children have ready access to the internet, youtube beeing on top of their usage. Lots have their first real contact with the nazi topics out of school within the internet, having a direct impact on their own perception of this era and all that comes with it today. I mean, I got the full blow of "you nazi!" often enough myself, but I only got into the internet "after" I already developed my own opinions about this topic, as is the case with most folks above the age of 30 here. That is not the case with the younger generation anymore, who are thrown into the barrel and often enough lack the wisdom to cope with this topic accordingly.
That goes so far as that these younger folks accuse their own government and other nations of lying about their past and using the Holocaust as an excuse to stay in control (this goes hand in hand with the impression of most germans of their government beeing utterly ineffective and too full of compromises, bad in a society that loves precision and the slogan "if you do something, do it 100% or not at all".) The support of democracy in general has already suffered by that within these age groups. Cry Wolf often enough and nobody will listen to it anymore, or worse, may try to repeat it.
And unless you make use of censorship and siteblocking on a big scale, that won't change anytime soon.
As I do not have any influence on the governments policy towards school and education, what would you guys suggest doing if you were to go active against this trend?
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