Absolutely, your point is well taken...my husband and I have often discussed, if we were in Germany during WW11, would we have had the courage to resist...one likes to think that they would, but unless we are in that situation, we will never know how we would act and react...
My point tho, was, that this woman was younger than me, had not gone through the war, and yet did not want her son to be exposed to what I thought was a well known part of history...I could understand about her parents, from whom I am sure she received many of her beliefs...but she was now in America, and her son would learn history in American schools..sooner or later, she would have to come to terms with that, as would her son...
Dang. Didn't catch that. Holy cow. I wonder what she did.
I remember when I was a little boy seeing the first pictures of prison camp survivors in the newspapers. It was a real shock. I can understand a mother not wanting her child to see it, although what this mother's motives were I don't know.
A while ago I heard a saying: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust." I'm beginning to understand it.