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Why we are teaching the Holocaust wrong

JL;DR SUMMARY Sarah Ellen Zarrow critiques the current approach to Holocaust education in American schools, arguing that it often simplifies the historical complexities into moral platitudes and detracts from a deeper understanding of the event's intricacies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Nazi GermanyHolocaust EducationMoral ComplexityResistanceHistoriographyGenocide PreventionCollaborationMoral LessonsNever Again Education ActHistory Curriculums

Places mentioned

Oswiecim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Youth hold Israeli flags during the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, on April 12, 2018 in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland."
United States
"The United States is embroiled in heated discussions about what should and shouldnt be taught in our classrooms."

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