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Originally Posted by constitution101
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denial
Look under Laws against denial of Holocaust. It is illiegal in Germany to deny the Holocaust. Why would German schools go into detail over Holocaust, American schools dont go into deep detail over the massacures of Indian tribes, forcing them to move hundreds of miles from their homelands. Besides countries usually do not push into their youth's minds how they have erred in the past, otherwise the population would drop to 0.
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Oh no, you've got that wrong - the opposite is the case: The Nazi regime and the Holocaust are huge topics in German History classes - they actually talk about this over and over again plus there are school trips scheduled to visit former concentration camps or museums.
It's not allowed to openly deny what happend, that's why a handful of conspiricy fanatists feel like someone is hiding something from them. I don't think, this restriction on the freedom of speech is very helpful, I'm with the
Freedom Forum on that one "The antidote to distasteful or hateful speech is not censorship, but more speech."