The Holocaust is taught too often purely as a historical event, an anomaly, a moment in time... Students understood what had happened and that it was terrible and that the people who did this were monsters.
The problem is, he continued, that relieves us of responsibility. Obviously, the mastermind was sociopathic, but on the scale for it to happen, there had to be a lot of people in the country who chose to go down that path.
You have to make the intellectual leap to figure out the reasons why.
Mr. Walz took his students - Brandon Bell, the wrestler; Beth Taylor, the cheerleader; Lanae Merwin, the quiet girl always reading some book about Queen Elizabeth; and all the other children of mechanics, secretaries and a town dentist...
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