[MtnClimber]

I am amazed when I talk to young millennials and see that they don't seem to be able to distinguish between good and evil.

[Yo-Yo]

Incredibly, it wasn’t until I was 19 that I learned that there had been a Holocaust.
...
I know that I read The Diary of Anne Frank back then, but I was probably too young to identify with a girl, so it made no impression.

So what he's really saying is that he didn't pay attention in school. I am fairly certain it was taught in his school, especially if he read The Diary of Anne Frank.

[lesko]

Sometimes it happens by accident. My daughter read the paperback book of Anne Frank; I think it’s titled “Who was Anne Frank”. After reading that she began asking me questions about WWII and Nazis, etc. My answers were somewhat filtered of course so she could comprehend.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks go posting this profound and important essay.

[MrEdd]

Too young to remember the Cambodian genocide by the environmentalist/communist Khmer Rouge?

Too young to remember the Rwandan / Burundi genocides, or the Yazidi genocide?

No.

The people who talk not of these things or outright attempt to discount them do do because it is their aspiration to repeat them.

[SakoL61R]

Wow. Seeing “Night and Fog” referenced in the article brought back strong (and sickening) memories because I watched it in (public) school sometime during the mid-70’s.

Ashland Junior High School, Walker Street in Ashland, Oregon.

Night and Fog was part of the curriculum as well as similar WWII films. The horrific scenes are still etched in my mind. We had to write about it.

No way in hell they’d let students watch it now, but they should.

“nuff said.
Never, ever forget.

[pabianice]

Herman Wouk did more for teaching history than any teacher in school.