Скачать или смотреть From Hitler Youth to History Teacher: How West Germany Taught (and Hid) Its Nazi Past

1960. I taught children to shout ‘Heil.’ Now I teach them that we were misled. The chalk breaks every time I reach the year 1939.

This episode follows a former Hitler Youth member who becomes a West German schoolteacher, forced to explain a past he once actively served.

We cover:

How ex‑Hitler Youth and former party members filled postwar classrooms
Early West German history textbooks and what they did—and didn’t—say about Nazism and the Holocaust
The gap between official lessons and silence at the family table
How this unresolved education helped fuel the 1968 student movement and a new reckoning with the past
Using curriculum documents, teacher files, and student memoirs, this video shows how West Germany tried to educate a generation about crimes their parents committed or supported.

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