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Originally Posted by commonsense
Is this the same in all German schools? I knew a few foreign exchange students back in high school who told me WWII history was not mentioned as much as it should be in the schools. Is it taught certain years and not others, perhaps they just hadn't taken this class yet. Your thoughts?
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I guess they've all been to college preparatory high school (="Gymnasium" - dang, our school system is kinda hard to explain
). There, you deal with the Nazi regime every once in a while (starting somewhere around 6th grade), but it's the focal point of the History class throughout the whole 10th grade. In 12th or 13th grade it gets mentioned again in a rather profound way. They must've been in 11th grade when they came abroad, the classes aren't flexible until 11th grade, so they should have heard it right before they came over... Besides that, this is just the curriculum of the History class. It's mentioned in German class and in Religious Education as well...
I don't know what went wrong at their school, they were probably just pretending, for whatever reason. Probably feared to be asked for a presentation or something.
