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A German teenager here, and we are learning it in school right now.

First: The History class is not the only class where we get in contact with the war. (Yes, when we talk about WWII we just call...

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Katharina Kolerova, teenager

Updated Aug 5, 2015 · Upvoted by Yao Zhan, Masters History, La Trobe University (1997)

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A German teenager here, and we are learning it in school right now.

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First: The History class is not the only class where we get in contact with the war. (Yes, when we talk about WWII we just call it "the war"). I give some examples:

Music:

Music: Songs about the war/written during the war. There's a concentration camp in my area and the prisoners composed a song on their own. Everyone here knows it.
Songs after the war (Rock'n'Roll/Schlager). Both used to forget the war. Schlager are German songs with easy and hella gooey texts.

German:

German: From Year 7-12/13 we do text analysis. Analysing speeches and poetry. The language, how it affects us (with which tools?), what the speaker wants to achieve. Guess, why.

Geography:.

Geography: Learning about different cultures. How beautiful they are. How could our ancestors destroy them?

Art:?

Art: Analysing. Again. Oh- and paintings painted/ photographs taken during the war. Also very popular in history class.

Religion:

Religion: We learn about different religions and that we Christians have our origin in the Jewish religion and how could our ancestors possibly hurt them?!?

Of course they don't tell us that this is the extended pack to our history class. But because of our German lessons, we read between the lines.

Okay, now imagine you broke an incredibly precious vase and it's unrepairable. Everyone hates you. You're ashamed and don't tell your kids about it.

They, however, find out and feel incredibly guilty for what you've done. They tell their kids what a bad family they are and that they are so sorry. Those kids feel guilty too and have more children.

Those kids slowly grow up and wonder whether they really have to feel sorry for something their great-grandpa has done.

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These kids are my generation.

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Of course we are shocked. Of course we think that should never ever happen again.

But do we have to feel guilty? Are we really not allowed to be proud of our country?

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Our media and our government say yes.
We slowly say no.

We must keep it in our minds so that we are able to act smarter in the future, we must learn from our ancestors' mistakes.

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But don't expect me to like you when you ask me whether I secretly think Hitler was okay.

I guess, we begin to look at it objectively now and refuse to feel guilty. Which is good. Feeling guilty for something we didn't do cannot be healthy.

THEY THINK OH MAN WHAT AN IGNORANT. I NEED UNDERSTANDING.

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