I’m not sure how, movies?, or probably my daughters read “The Diary of Anne Frank” - but they knew about the Holocaust at a young age - sixth grade???
I recall one of them gave a report on it and a bunch of the kids were saying there was no way it was true. “You can’t just murder 14 million people!” Etc. (Granted they were 6th or 7th graders.) The teacher obviously back up my daughter.
In later years in school they learned a lot about it.
We visited D.C. and spent about 6 hours at the Holocaust museum - my 18 year-old daughters (twins) wanted more time!
I think that a lot of the trouble with public education is when the parents aren’t involved at all. Yes they push their liberal crap, and I even thought some of the Holocaust/ NAZI Germany stuff came across as some sort of liberal re-education thing. Maybe it was, and we are seeing their fruits now with so many people saying how Trump is “just like Hitler”.
>I recall one of them gave a report on it and a bunch of the kids were saying there was no way it was true. “You can’t just murder 14 million people!” Etc. (Granted they were 6th or 7th graders.) The teacher obviously back up my daughter.
Generally speaking the Nazis didn’t outright murder 14 million people. For the most part they worked as slaves in horrible conditions and didn’t supply them enough food in to kill them, much like the soviet gulag system. The Nazi’s fully intended to kill them but for the most part is was killing them slowly and getting labor out the people’s they were exterminating. However, after the war the left realized that Nazi methods were too much like the ongoing mass murder machine that was the soviet gulag. So a narrative was generated that most of the people died in gas chambers to protect the soviets and to heighten the evilness of the Nazis. As of right now there is only 3 camps identified as death camps equipped with death chambers but they only killed a faction the people murders by the Nazis.
The truth is no one outright murders 10 of millions of people. It’s just too damn expensive compared to starving people to death. So the kids where right and we’re still repeating Soviet propaganda on the issue 70 years later.