Wednesday, November 7, 2012
My I.B. History I.A. is about Hitler's ideologies within "Mein Kampf" and how they were implemented in Nazi society and policies. I picked this topic because I'm interested in it, but while thinking about this I began to consider something else. What is so interesting about Hitler and the Holocaust? I know a lot of people who find this topic very intriguing and it makes me wonder why everyone seems to be interested in such a gruesome, horrific subject. The ways the Jews were tortured and killed are an example of evil within society. Often in class the topic describes the details of their extermination and shows videos that show real footage from the Holocaust. What is it about this horrible event that interests people so much. I can't even answer the question for myself; I have no clue why I enjoy learning of something so horrific.
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Well, obviously you don't really enjoy it that much if you are disgusted...
ReplyDeleteI think you are right that it is rather macabre of our educational system to have the Holocaust studied about five different times. We should mention it early on, perhaps in middle school, and come back to it at the end of high school for more analytic stuff like in this year's history curriculum. Besides, Hitler and the Holocaust are separate units of study. One caused the other, but Hitler did other (slightly less horrible) things, too.
Not to be trite, but perhaps the Holocaust serves as simply a good warning from history.