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Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds

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Sesame Street has historically done a pretty good job of introducing kids to real world issues. OTOH, it was my conservative Christian teachers (and those who wrote the curricula they used) who tried to whitewash our past.

They should introduce the kids to a real world map. History isn't a big priority in school these days either.
 
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They should introduce the kids to a real world map. History isn't a big priority in school these days either.

How is a map relevant to this discussion?
 
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The big problem in my opinion, is that the Holocaust is taught in a wrong manner, anyway. The Nazis are treated as an Other, as evil incarnate. They were normal human beings, from an educated and normal European country. Yet they commited the Holocaust, an unbelievable evil. It should focus more on our inate ability to do evil, how the jackboot could potentially march everywhere, given the right circumstances. It profits no one to just castigate the Nazis and not address that within each of us, a potential Nazi may lurk.

Remembering the numbers of dead, the dates, or the names of Concentration camps, is not that important. It would be better if people did, but as long as they learn the lesson of the event, then such circumstantial details are fairly immaterial. That lesson, I think, is often neglected, as Fascism is cast as some bogeyman or monster, instead of our shadow. It is quite clear in politics today, in which Nazi is used as a catch-all term of opprobrium, while people themselves act in totalitarian ways while doing so.

...more Americans should read Erik Larsen's "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin"
 
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...more Americans should read Erik Larsen's "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin"

More Americans should read all of his books. They're great.
 
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Far worse events have occurred more recently and have already been forgotten.

Yeah, that's not a factual. While, unfortunately, "Never forget" has rang hollow in some locations, there has been nothing on the scale of the Holocaust. Not Cambodia, not Kosovo or Bosnia, not Rwanda.
 
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