I’ve been living in Germany for fifteen years. The last thing that most Germans can stand to have brought up in conversation or in the news...is the concentration camps. The 18-40 year old crowd....won’t even stand to watch a 3-minute clip on the subject.
Most German kids who sit in the history class...now ask why keep bringing this up...that was then, and has nothing to do with today.
Whoever decided on Obama’s staff that this was a great idea...really screwed up. Merkel? She has to be smiling...there are only three appearances in Germany of Obama...at Landstuhl, which drags up the Iraq war which all Germans have a dislike of....then a visit to a concentration camp...that all Germans hate having the topic brought up, and then a visit to a East German region who can’t stand propaganda of any type or variety.
This was a lose-lose-lose trip for the Obama team in the end.
Kind of like how democrats still want to punish all of us for slavery.
I don't blame the kids at all.
However we must make an effort to understand the situations that lead to the darker aspects of our history in order to avoid the same mistakes in the future.
So all the same, the kids need to pay attention in class.
Thank you for sharing that information. Where else would we learn about it? Not from the media, for sure.