diumenge, 6 de març del 2016

New book on the shelves of the Germany high schools

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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