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Vocaloid Ruby said:
Not trying to be offensive, but I find it kind of disturbing that this is all through America's lens? I don't know, we never had writing so pandering in the text books I've had during my life. Also the way this is written is just sad, I don't know what age group this is for but I don't feel it's taking the weight of the subject as seriously as it should, I don't know some words just feel out of place.
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You teamed up with the Soviet Union, were actively complicit in genocides, violated the neutrality of friendly nations, interned hundreds of thousands of loyal citizens, maintained starvation blockades, deliberately firebombed entire cities full of civilians into rubble, and finally dropped two nuclear bombs on civilian targets. Then you turned around and hanged everyone on the other side for war crimes (such as banking and architecture consultancy).

Not to downplay any of the atrocities the third reich is responsible for, but there's a very obvious reason people desperately need to frame WW2 as a battle of "good vs evil" and for Hitler to be a ridiculously overblown monster with all nuance and details glossed over.
 
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Vocaloid Ruby said:
I've had a British education and have been taught history and Nazi Germany at a GCSE level in my life and have realized just how extensive I know the country's history compared to some of these people who compare Hitler and Trump. Are they taught about WW2 at all? Do they even know how Hitler actually came to power?
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I had an American education and we were taught about it extensively, but I'm old. Hell, my dad fought in WWII.
 
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neverendingmidi said:
I'm hoping this is a middle school level book (ages 11-14), but it's probably for high schoolers. There's a reason most college students have to take a fuckton of remedial classes when they start.
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I read them in elementary, but I had a 12th grade reading level for most of my education. We never used them as textbooks.
 
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Vocaloid Ruby said:
Also the way this is written is just sad, I don't know what age group this is for
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Given the innumerable Hitler comparisons over the past year, a great number of which came from and still come from professionals and members of the media, I'm just going to assume that came from a college undergrad's history course.
 
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto..._victory_proves_that_america_hates_women.html

Of all the gals in the media who feel their Teen Girl Squad pact has been betrayed, this one might be the saltiest I've read. The possibility that some of her sisters might not feel all that strongly about bell hooks or even read her never enters her mind.
 
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Vocaloid Ruby said:
Hey guys this is more of a question about this phenomena but, what exactly are Americans taught about WW2 and Hitler in general?

I've had a British education and have been taught history and Nazi Germany at a GCSE level in my life and have realized just how extensive I know the country's history compared to some of these people who compare Hitler and Trump. Are they taught about WW2 at all? Do they even know how Hitler actually came to power?
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From what I remember, I was taught that ww1 started ww2 and put Germany in a depression because they had to pay for the damages. Hitler became popular after telling the German people he could fix the problem and won. My teachers never mentioned when or why he started rounding up Jews. They just said he was racist and insane. We came up with theories about why he hated them, like his art school was run by them and rejected him/ his dad was a Jew who was abusive to his wife etc. Japan bomed Pearl Harbor and we got involved. All we ever talked about was D Day, concentration camps, the Allies and Russian winter.

We almost never talked about Hitler himself. If you were interested about anything eles evolving ww2 you had to look it up yourself or stay behind with the teacher to have a real discussion. We were pressed for time during class so everything was summarized.

Tbh a lot of the people calling Trump Hitler probably don't know anything about the war other than people being thrown into gas chambers. It's extremely petty and insensitive to compare the two when you take the time to do research.

Edit- Typos. All the time.
 
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto..._victory_proves_that_america_hates_women.html

Of all the gals in the media who feel their Teen Girl Squad pact has been betrayed, this one might be the saltiest I've read. The possibility that some of her sisters might not feel all that strongly about bell hooks or even read her never enters her mind.
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All of us are grieving, trying to make sense of the worst thing to happen to our country in modern history.
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"the worst thing to happen to our country in modern history."
"the worst thing to happen to our country in modern history."
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