Students Told to Take Viewpoint of the Nazis [high school English class]

New York Times ^ | April 12, 2013 | JESSE McKINLE

[livius]

I think that perhaps she needed to give a little more “public” prep - that is, announce this project to the principal, etc. - because it strikes me as a valuable project in showing how the state can demonize an “out-group” and whip up the citizenry to blame that group for all their problems. (Obama sparodically attempts to do that with Christians, but fortunately he doesn’t quite have the power yet.)

I haven’t seen the name of the teacher, but frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that she was Jewish and was trying to teach a largely non-Jewish student body about the experience of being Jewish (or any hated minority) under a state that needs to have a scapegoat.