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Hitler was a German soccer coach, kids tell U.K. poll

Adolf Hitler was the manager of Germany's national soccer team, and Auschwitz was a World War Two theme park, a poll released by the Daily Mail on Friday said, questioning U.K. children aged 9 to 15.

The study, which was conducted by war veterans' charity Erskine in the run-up to Remembrance Day, tested 2,000 children for their knowledge of last century's two world wars.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Adolph Hitler wanted his Reich to last a thousand years. It collapsed, and deservedly so, after only 12.

Hitler wanted to be remembered forever. Why are we giving him exactly what he wanted? Why does our popular culture and media continue to iconify him and his deeds often to the exclusion of more recent atrocities that seem to slip my the media unnoticed?

Personally, I view it as a positive sign that the modern generation is forgetting this man, both because Hitler deserves to be condemned to eternal anonymity and oblivion, and mostly because it is a sign of mental instability when one lives in the past and cannot live in the present.

Whatever happened in WW2 happened before almost all of us were born. Hitler is dead, the Nazis are destroyed, and their nation has vanished from the face of the Earth.

And we have war crimes to deal with which are happening right here and now.

Obsessing about Hitler in the schools is as relevant as forcing the kids to study Sanskrit.

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Posted on Nov 07, 2009 at 09:03
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