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octaane ◴[29 Jun 25 22:03 UTC] No.44416911[source]▶
Is anyone surprised by this? Europeans still vividly remember, and are reminded, of the cost of WWII. When the head of a company, no matter how trendy, sieg heils on stage (twice!) and then goes on to publicly appear at far-right german political rallies - europeans take note, and act accordingly.
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v5v3[dead post] ◴[29 Jun 25 22:09 UTC] No.44416970[source]▶
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princevegeta89 ◴[29 Jun 25 22:24 UTC] No.44417108[source]▶
I will give you some context here - in my high school (India) we were never taught any of the million horrible things Hitler did to people. We were only taught that Hitler was a very prominent leader and an icon of history that always won wars and held Germany and many other countries in his grip. It was only when I read about him on the internet that I found what kind of an SOB he actually was, many years later.

I was so stoned by all of that and the fact that our education and schooling hid that very fact from all of us. So it is up to us to teach kids when they grow up to allow them to know history as it exactly happened, without painting it, when the time is right.

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1. willvarfar ◴[29 Jun 25 22:29 UTC] No.44417150{3}[source]▶
What was the motivation for the curriculum to hide - or even glorify - Nazi Germany? And do those motivations keen the current students similarly uninformed?
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2. v5v3 ◴[29 Jun 25 22:38 UTC] No.44417234[source]▶
I imagine most of history in India will focus on Britain being more evil than Germany.

More killed by British in India than Hitler killed. plus all the plundering of resources.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/independence-day-165-...

3. carlosjobim ◴[29 Jun 25 22:41 UTC] No.44417264[source]▶
You have to understand that nations who weren't directly involved will only be interested in broad strokes of history. Up until recently you had people in Europe and elsewhere calling themselves Maoist.

Genghis Khan is not demonized in European or American schools either.

4. princevegeta89 ◴[29 Jun 25 22:42 UTC] No.44417267[source]▶
"do those motivations keen the current students similarly uninformed?"

I am afraid that is still the case. All of the kids I know within my cousins' families (8-14 years of age), have no idea about any of the Holocaust stuff.

The reason I think is the curriculum takes the holocaust not so seriously and also, the authorities believing that kids are not meant to be exposed to much details about all of the stuff. I remember it was just mentioned as "war" to us. It is still sadly the case.

Also, note that we weren't taught a bit of shit about Pol Pot, Imperial Japan etc. Nobody had any idea about the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731 etc.

All we were just taught was just "wars" - who fought and who won.

5. mitthrowaway2 ◴[29 Jun 25 22:45 UTC] No.44417291[source]▶
I'm definitely not an expert on this but I think India has (well-grounded) resentment towards Churchill, and so the enemy-of-my-enemy effect may have resulted in a softening of Hitler's image and a tendency to downplay his crimes and negative attributes.

Nuance is hard, and so to some people, accepting Hitler as a villain means whoever defeated him must be a hero, so if we don't want to accept Churchill as a hero then we must reject Hitler being a villain.

(It goes without saying that this logic is faulty, but at the same time it's part of human nature and we all have to grapple with it to some extent).

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