@chucker @DidiQ @donmelton +1 to this.
the older i get, the more i am astounded how much that part of education became a solid and useful foundation. i even find its lack in some folks from other countries disconcerting.
and yet, at the time, it felt so dreary and useless. turns out, even when kids in puberty can be really ungrateful little shits, energy spent on them isn’t necessarily spent in vain.
@chucker @DidiQ @donmelton yes, full agree to the latter part – it did come at a cost of less time spent on other important subjects. but i’m sure that sort of encompassing coverage of nazi germany could still be maintained while on a less eurocentric history curriculum.
at least in my school (gymn. in bavaria), it wasn’t just a matter of history lessons, there was a lot of it in german as well, and other subjects as it fit in. (plus excursions, visits from survivors, etc.) didn’t make it any less ‘come on, again?’ to teen-age me, but in retrospect, that interdisciplinary approach allowed for more chances of something grabbing here, something else gaining a foothold there.
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