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Originally Posted by Schroeder
They don't teach anything about WWII here at all (almost, we watched the movies Schindler's List and the Diary Of Anne Frank, but that was it practically).
I had history as one of my main subjects for my graduation. We were doing National Socialism only from 1933 until 1939.
When the real nasty stuff started we either changed the subject or the year was over (don't remember any more what of that happened).
We also didn't learn anything about WWI except that it happened (hey, at least we watched the movie "All Quiet On The Western Front", but it doesn't explain WHY anything happened.
This is the point were we come back to the original topic. I think one of the biggest mistakes is not to teach anything about WWII in school (at least not where I went to school 10 years ago, maybe that's different in other states here). I think even superficial knowledge of the war should be enough to destroy any good image of Hitler. All the big mistakes he has been making should be enough to identify him as a total idiot. Add that up with all the crimes that happened and no one with a brain should be willing to follow someone like him anymore.
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Must be different from state to state or even city to city. The school I went to covert WW2 quite extensively, and to some detail even WW 1.
I remember writing a couple of essays about WW2 and asking my Grandparents for details.