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RE: Holocaust lesson in Germany - What do we teach our kids at school?
A very important topic. I have always felt that the extreme guilt that Germans were/are supposed to take on even when born way after the war, together with the silence in the families about what happened for them, on a personal level, has let to the rise of the neo-nazi presence and the hatred for foreigners.
We don't seem to learn from history very much...
This is the point we are trying to make @mariannewest
We noticed how the kids get fed up with the topic very soon. Also, nothing that is considered 'graphic content' is shown to the kids. They can turn 18 without having seen any of the horrors from the camps. The lesson is too often very heavy on them, and too conceptual. It reaches the brain (maybe), but it doesn't reach the hearth and the soul.
As long as the images don't come with: And you carry the guilt for this. Germany is still so much in the mea culpa teachings. The Germany I grew up in was just Germans - then slowly "guest workers" from Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey.
And prejudice - from what I can tell from afar - is high as ever. I love to see more "how can we create peace among diversity" kind of work.
Not saying that it is not important to know your history - but the most important part is to create a different future...
Hey @mariannewest, History class is indeed important. This film is about 'how' the darkest historical period and possibly the worse genocide in history is thought to the nieces and nephews of the perpetrators. And overall, would you show to a 14 years old kid? Or 16 years old kid? Would you show the film 'Night will fall'? Or is that too much?
Absolutely fucking agree.