The Holocaust Should Not Be Taught In The School Curriculum

The Holocaust was a time of prejudice, violence, death, and great suffering. Some may say that because of these reasons, the Holocaust should not be taught during the school curriculum, but these reasons are exactly why students should learn about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust is an important time in History and an important subject to be taught in school. Teaching the Holocaust explains to students that it started because of prejudice against not only Jewish people but also of disabled people, homosexual people, Slavic people, Romanian people, Catholic people, and many others. It also teaches students that silence and indifference to negative situations lets them continue by explaining to students that Hitler and the Nazi party rose to power and were able to carry out their evildoings because most people did not do anything to try to stop them.

Teaching the Holocaust to students shows them that it is necessary to create peace and protect human rights for everyone and to prevent something like the Holocaust from ever happening again.

Some may argue that schools that are not in Germany should not learn about the Holocaust since it does not concern their countries. Although the Holocaust itself may have not affected some countires, what happened during the Holocaust influenced nations around the world, not just Germany,

to reform and review their government policies and to find ways to protect their people and prevent mass genocide and violence.
Some may say that schools should avoid teaching the Holocaust because it can offend and trouble students, make German and Jewish students feel alienated, and make teachers seem insensitive.

This will only happen if the lesson is taught too blandly. Teachers should be trained on how to teach emotional subjects such as the Holocaust. If their lessons are taught correctly and profoundly students will not feel alienated or offended and teachers will not seem insensitive. Students will always be troubled when learning about the Holocaust because it was a terrible and sickening part of History, and that is how students understand that it cannot be

repeated.
In conclusion, the Holocaust is a darkly defining time in history and it cannot just be ignored. If a person is never shown to an in-depth lesson of the Holocaust, they will never see the causes of the start of the Holocaust and the reasons why it was able to last so long. They will never know that the Holocaust started because a young Hitler learned from a person that he looked up to to be prejudiced against Jewish people. They will never know that the reason that the Holocaust was able to drag on and that Hitler had gained absolute power over Germany and most of Europe was because most witnesses, both those who were against and for Holocaust, stood by and did nothing to stop it. They will never know that in order for something like this to never happen again, it must start, with them.