[robowombat]

Interestingly back in the 50’s this sort of an assignment was pretty common. I remember in 7th grade doing a project about Nazi's that included writing denunciations. There was also a unit on communism in which the same sort of thing was done. The idea was to teach one how powerful and insidious totalitarian ideologies were. I admit many of the males, including several who were Jews got into the spirit of the event pretty enthusiastically. Our teacher, who was a very well educated lady from New England and had lived the 30’s and 40’s experience used this as a teaching point. No rebukes just a homily on ‘see how easy it is to become a Nazi Hitler Youth or a Young Pioneer. See how insidious these regimes are with their powerful images and martial display and nifty uniforms.’ I don't know what this teacher was trying to do but i know showing kids how you can easily end up a true believing totalitarian is pretty powerful and sobering.

[Revolting cat!]

You’re talking about a history lesson and not about a simpleminded English exercise. I mean what a simpleton this teacher is. “Jews evil”. Uhuh.

[wolfpat]

Have you ever seen that thing about the teacher who announced to her class that blue-eyed kids were better than brown-eyed kids. After a week or two, she changed up and said the brown-eyed kids were better than the blue-eyed kids. In each case the kids lorded over their “inferiors”. During the whole lesson she talked of this word coming from the great leader. At the end of the lesson, she revealed the great leader to be Hitler.

[Steven Tyler]

...They do not want to contrast the current Administration with the Nazi’s, people might wake up and understand the similarities

[I Shall Endure]

Exactly. Learning how your enemies think is a useful skill. (If that was the point of this teacher’s exercise)