Interesting question

Yeah it's to bad Germany has such a bad reputation here in Sweden. It's like swedes are ashamed of themselves and have to bash Germany because of WW2. I remember in school we spent like a whole year talking abut how bad Hitler, Göring, Himmler etc was.

When I talked to the teacher about teaching something other in the history classes she was like "This i very very important stuff to know, the most significant happening ever bla bla bla...". I guess it didn't help that she was jewish and that most books in Swedish schools are given out by jewish publishers.

Now that's a shame because I really like the country!
 
And that shows us the simplicity of mankind my friend. I’d rather see people getting upset by the fact religion is taking many wrong turns then something that happened 70 years ago.
 
Well you might guess for how long we had this topic in our history classes in school. One year would have been perfect. I guess, all together it must have been about 3 years. At the end, you couldn't hear it anymore. You were totally fed up. My history teachers achieved the opposite effect of what they originally intended to, me and my buddies became dull and jaded when our teachers were talking about Hitler and WW2 again.

 
In USA we covered WW2 pretty extensively but I just remember it being pretty interesting. American boys my age all got pretty excited about war in general. I had grown up on at least two sandboxes worth of plastic army men. Also "Germans and Nazis" didn't really make a direct connection. We were taught that Germans were as much victims of the nazis as were the Jews. And of course that us Americans came in to kick ass and save the day, taking time to tip our cowboy hat as two perfectly framed explosions went off in the back ground. :)
 
Hehe that's funny because here in Europe they teach us that the Americans just came in when they knew that Germany was defeated and that it was the Russians who did all the work :D.
 
I feel for you my friend. And now looking back at things I shouldn't have allowed the teacher to go on like that. It was literally classes starting with "why do you believe Hitler was that evil" and ended with "could it ever be anyone as evil as Hitler".

I also remember writing a paper about the Israel/Palestine conflict. This was in 9th grade and most of my classmates wrote about 10-15 pages. I wrote 108, with interviews from both sides, really good analysis (for a 9th grader) but I wasn't pro Israel. The teacher gave me a C- on that paper. That was my only C ever (from 1st grade all throw high school I was an A/A+ student).

As far as I know she is still teaching. I remember that she invited WW2 survivors a total of 6 times during that year, they all told the same story...

 
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