Isn’t the real issue that grade school children are doing a play about Hitler? The guise of this being historical does not justify such a horrific topic at that age. Intentionally or not, the play clearly has succeeded in turning some kids into little nazis.
How about the history of our country? But probably the curriculum recommends the French revolution over the American. When I was 8, our class was memorizing the Dec. of Independence.
We used to go to the auditorium and watch a film version of Johnny Tremain.