If the educational authorities of
the country and the German government accept the proposal of the Association of
Teachers and Education Minister, a new critic edition of the Mein Kampf (1925)
will become a compulsory lecture and will be studied in all German high
schools.
This book has been the most polemic
and dangerous book in Germany and whose reprint has been prevented for 70
years. But now, taking advantage that the rights of the book written by the
head of the Holocaust due this year, a small government sector want to
introduce the new edition commented in the educational system.
This book contains both
autobiographical data and the nationalist, racist and violent ideology of the
author. Introducing that book into the high schools, according to the
authorities, should serve to immunize German youth against the extremism
political. They also think that the thought of the dictator should have an
answer of the 21st century Germany youth
and in that way, instead of allow that the charm of the forbbiden captivates the young
people (because they can find this book on Internet), is much better that the
students know this text helped by their teachers: it’s a good idea talk about
this topic.
The oppositions to this proposal
hasn’t been slow to appear and in fact, there are several politic sectors and
different associations that consider that the new edition could serve to help
spread the Hitler thoughts.
I think that this proposal is a
right one and it comes at the right time: in German schools, the holocaust and
the collective responsibility were spoke before any other place and, after all,
we’re talking about one of the books that have had most influence on the
Germany population in the history of the country and from now one, it will be
on the shelves of the high schools besides other works; that one will not be
there for his quality but for the capacity and the power that it have had, I
mean, for the capacity of mobilizing an entire country.
As well as, in that way, German
students will not just know what Hitler said but they will know what and why.
In fact, I think that it is impossible to achieve a knowledge without
understand. We know what was the anti-Semitism of Hitler but we don’t
understand why for Adolf Hitler was more important exterminate a race than win
the war. Yes, of course, we have plenty of theories, hypothesis, causes and
motivations but no one of this explains or justifies adequately what happened
and for this, I think, this “catastrophe” still being incomprehensible for us.
Summing up, I think that the moment
of talk about this topic in schools has come: the risk of the Mai Kampf it isn't
to make readers into neo-Nazis, but it is that we remove the importance that it
have had taking it as a book of the past that nothing has to do with us.
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