As a university student in Germany in 1966-67, I learned that teaching the history of Nazi Germany in German schools was strictly prohibited, much to the outrage of the younger teachers and their secondary school students. Students born during the Nazi regime and after were asking their parents, particularly their fathers, the painful question of what they had done during the war.A student/teacher protest movement began in the late ’60s to demand that the full story be taught and in 1968 the government rele … (read more)
