[lizol]

You see, there is one thing about that center, that I'm really affraid of.

I don't really know what is the level of history education in German schools - especially considering WW2.
I've read, that young Germans are being taught about holocaust, and tragedy of Jewish people during WW2 (which is good).
But I've also read, that knowledge about what happened to ethnic Poles during that time is not very common in Germany.

You have already a Holocaust memorial in Berlin. And now you're also going to have that center to commemorate the expelled - also in Berlin.

And the problem is, that after - let's say - 20 years Germans will now, that there were 2 main groups of victims of WW2 - the Jewish victims of Holocaust and the German victims of expulsions.

Another problem is that those expulsions must be placed in their proper historical context - why they actually happened.

It's very common - when writing about atrocities of WW2 - that people name the pepetrators as "Nazis", not calling their nationality (I think even you do so - as far as I remember).
At the same time many people (especially some American Jews - even here, on FR) maintain, that Poles were co-responsible for Holocaust.
I've also read about a research in schools in California.
Pupils were asked many questions relating to history. One of them was something like "What nationality were Nazis?". And the most common answer was ... Polish.

And this is something that I'm really affraid of.

[kaiser80]

Pupils were asked many questions relating to history. One of them was something like "What nationality were Nazis?". And the most common answer was ... Polish. And this is something that I'm really affraid of.

Well, maybe they were idiots like this people?

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