This question might be a little rude to Germany, but what do they teach in high school history class about?

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ShlomoNYC

History I guess ..... what else?

What doe we teach in the US?

Vietnam? Iraq? Blacks in the US? Native Americans?

frackledJJ

roki simply has no idea. I don't know what he's got up his nose, but what he is saying is so far from the truth, it's ridiculous.
In fact, I repeated the same part of history (~1850 - 1999) every year for 6 years, and the part before and including WW1 was wrapped up in maybe a month, and the part after WW2 was wrapped up in about a month, and the rest of the school year was dedicated to why black Friday affected Germany's economy, what reparations Germany needed to pay to the Allies for WW1, how that helped Hitler in his rise to power, what happened when with the laws suppressing the rights of certain people, why and how it was done, what any who knew what was really going on, I have had numerous field trips to Jewish Synagogues, Jewish prayer rooms, traveling expos on Jewish culture, we had to watch movies like Schindler's list in school, or "la vita est bella", which is such a great great great, sad and wonderful approach! I'm sure the kids in school now would also watch "Der Untergang" (the downfall") which is a movie about the last days in Hitlers Bunker under Berlin, relies heavily on the testimonials of one of Hitlers secretaries and atelecommunicationn engineer who was stationed in there, and it is pretty chilling.
Every school trip that took us close to a former concentration or work camp that was made into a memorial took us into that memorial, so I have seen the former Dachau concentration camp (where some of the cruel tests were done that raki insists Germans are in the black about), I have seen Buchenwald concentration camp, where they kept a bear for "fun", I have been to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where a former inmate was our guide, who, as soon as he knew we were German kids (Theresienstadt is now in the Chech Republic), went from. "the Germans did this and that" to "you did this and that", though it was in 1997 and we were all about 16 years old...
In school, we were encouraged as much as humanly possible to inform ourselves about this time-span. Every major town has a memorial for the Jewish people who lived there. There are remembrance blocks put into the pavement in front of houses where jewish people lived, with their names and dates of births, place they were transported to and whether they were murdered, died of a disease or went "missing"...
We know. We get told. We get informed. We are encouraged to ask the witnesses from back than questions.
Frankly, I don't think any other country has such an in-depth education to offer on that special topic. That might also be why there are, percentage-wise, less "Neo-Nazis" in Germany than in other countries of the western civilizations. I do not deny that there are idiots who get high on the idea, but mostly those people are uneducated and frustrated people with not many possibilities in life. I do not want to excuse their views, just wanted to make sure you understand the differences of why, since we get that well educated about that, there still are people being taken in by the ideas Hitler valued.

mactheanimal

LearÂ´s Answer is right. The third Reich and Adolf Hitler is just one part of Germanys History. In school I had that part for about a 3/4 year.

Roki: Youre uncultured stupid Moron!

Lear

At Gymnasium (school which qualifies you for university)

6. Grade: Early high cultures, Romans, Greek societies

7. Grade: Christianity, Islam, Middle ages

9. Grade: Absolutism in Europe and America, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution

10.Grade: WW1, Russian Revolution, Weimar Republic, WW2, Third Reich

11-13.Grade: Repetition of the mentioned and deep analysis plus Cold War, Germany and World policy from 1945-90

Note that Mr. Adolf Hitler is one, I repeat only one figure in history among several important epochs.

Alwin E

During my "Gymnasium" years it was:

9th grade: Adolf Hitler

10th grade: Adolf Hitler

11th grade: Adolf Hitler

12th grade: Adolf Hitler

13th grade: Adolf Hitler

I really had enough of Adolf Hitler when I finally had that Gymnasium finished and was ready for university.

Now it wasn't that bad, after all. We had good history lessons where we were taught a lot about the world and how it came to be what it is; but the 3rd Reich was an inevitable topic every year. Most of us moaned, "oh no, don't give us that Hitler stuff again", but our teachers were relentless.

Having visited Dachau concentration camp memorial, and Mauthausen in Austria, was something important to me, and to most of us. It leaves a mark on everyone who has seen it. I don't think revisionists would write such a lot of nonsense like "the holocaust didn't happen" if they had seen the evidence. -- They should have left more of the barracks and the gas chambers intact, however, for everyone to see. Just like they should have left more parts of the Berlin wall intact instead of tearing it all down. Such things are important for future generations to remember.

CheGuevara

Well.. The truth..

That he was a dictator, responsible for WWII, genocide, countless war crimes and so on. Nothing is gloryfied, nothing denied.
It's a major subject in history class. Some classes even take field trips to the former concetrantion camp sites.

What Roki says is simply not true. We do know and we are aware.

fliege52000

They don't teach not only "Adolf Hitler" in German High Schools.
They are learning "World History" and I think this is very important.

EvCaCeLy

i have history advanced class and we are taught many different topics, but in details.

5 grade to 6: Stone Age, the Egypt History and the discovery of America

grade 7: mainly the middle age and a bit about the the roman empire

grade 8: french revolution, absolutism, industrialization and imperialism

grade 9: WWI, but only sketchy

grade 10: a WWI again. The causes why hitler became very powerful, the holocaust, WWII, the cold war

grade 11: i don't know what the teachers have taught the students in history classes, because i spent a year in outland

grade 12 (advanced class): about the greece history (we students could vote) in details and later on about the industrilization again, but again in details. french revolution, english revolution and american revolution.

grade 13 (advanced): The rise and the fall of the German Reich. We mainly discuss the german foreign policy, Bismarck and the (in my opinion) stupid german empire wilhelm the second.

I love this topic and we talked last time about the assassination attempted on the austrian successor to the throne in sarajevo. Later on we will talk about the WWI again, but more in details.

We always include the other great powers in Europe (Russia, England, France, Austrian), the balkan countries, the united States, japan and the colonies in our topic to explain the relations between those countries and how they developed.

We will discuss the topic like historians and judge, whose fault was it.
It is allright to have his or her opinion and my teacher does not mind, if my opinion is not the same as hers as long as i state reasons that could convince other people.

Of course we talked a lot about Adolf Hitler, because the german defeat made Germany, what it is right now.

We have a good and stable democracy system, Germany becae a peaceful country thaz refused to war with other countries since WWII and we rather befriends with them.

my teacher always says that we do not realize that we live in a peaceful time in europe for the first time in history. The first time we have our neighbouring states as our friends.

franzy81

We had Hitler well you have bush so what they teach you about him? Come on of course we discuss the 2nd WW and talk about adolf hitler its a bad part in history but well we cant change it

~â™¥Blondie With Blue Eyesâ™¥~

u wanna b a little racist???? no! most of germany was affected horribly with horrible consequences because of hitler and the nazis.

filou_85

We just finished the topic 2nd World war and we didn't talk about Adolf Hitler very much. just two or three lessons, because it's important for german history.

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