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Do You Think That It Is Important That Students Study the Holocaust in School?
Summary: If we know the true horrors caused by the holocaust, it may prevent it from happening again, and change the views of those that believe it was right. It is not just the final solution that must be prevented; it is all that the Nazi's stood for: hate, prejudice and violence.
Although not ever body would agree, I want to argue that it is important to study the holocaust in school.
I have several reasons for arguing this point of view. My first reason is that if we know the true horrors caused by the holocaust, it may prevent it from happening again, and change the views of those that believe it was right. It is not just the final solution that must be prevented; it is all that the Nazi's stood for: hate, prejudice and violence. It is the idea that a certain group of people, Aryans, are better than everyone else. Had Hitler truly known the meaning of the word Aryan and not just take on it, he would realize that none of the Germans were Aryan. None of the Nazi's would be "pure" had he known what a real Aryan was.
A further reason is that...
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