It seems that soft power on the net - the right semantics in the articles of acclaimed newspapers, forums and blogs "historical" whitening Germany and spreading lies, half-truths, manipulations have done what I have warned against for about 15 years.
Lies have turned into "collateral knowledge" replicating lies.
Total lie of historical truth.
Of course, it was surely in a different mode in Germany - all these lies have always been just an excuse to practice specified rhetoric today, that young people seem to know nothing so that they can "cut" off from the past and openly express their claims.
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09.05.2025, 09:27
German youth believe that Poles provoked planet War II!
In school classes in Germany, 1 can hear claims specified as "Poland provoked planet War II" or "Jews were someway complicit" – alarms "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". "80 years after the end of the war, memory preservation is becoming increasingly difficult," the historians emphasize.
"Such untruthful thesis poses an expanding threat due to increasing gaps in students' knowledge," stressed the president of the German Association of past Teachers (VGD) Niko Lamprecht, quoted by "FAZ". He added that teachers are seeing an increasingly negative attitude among students to address the subject of national socialism and
Today, there are besides more and more calls for "let go" of the Nazi period in German past – noted VGD and the Association of German Historians (VHD) in a joint statement. .
After the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and Israel's retaliatory military operation in the Gaza Strip, the denial or trivialization of the execution of Jews and anti-Semitism is not only accepted in schools with a advanced percent of migrant students, it was stressed.
Indifference, ignorance and fake news on this subject are perfect grounds for developing specified phenomena. Students no longer believe in teachers, historical facts or hard-to-access sources do not count, and bloggers and films force young people to interpret historical events through their simple messages.
– says a joint statement.
Soon there will be no more eyewitnesses of the Nazi era, the collective memory fades, and Nazi crimes are trivialized or relativized, historians see the urgent request for action and propose concrete steps to preserve historical cognition – he stressed in his article "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".
From the historians' point of view 80 years after the end of planet War II, memory preservation is becoming an expanding effort, and democratic education is not possible without cognition of the era of Nazism, planet War II and its consequences.
"historians see the urgent request for action and propose concrete steps to preserve historical knowledge" - Like what?
Is that an authoritative signal that they're taking further action according to plans from 80 years ago?
German youth believe that Poles provoked planet War II! | Independent.pl
German youth believe that Poles provoked planet War II! | Independent.pl
