Re: Did you knwo Holocaust Teaching was Compulsory?

Norbert Lieckfeldt wrote:
®i©ardo <Here@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Yes, perhaps we should know about it, but not in isolation as the only
bad deed in the last century.

Who said the holocause was going to be taught as "the only bad deed in the last century"? Can you substantiate this with a quote from the national curriculum?

Perhaps you could substantiate otherwise. There does, however, seem to be an over-emphasis on the Holocaust in the UK in that it did not happen in this country, it was not condoned by this country and it was not something that was carried out by either the citizens or the government of this country. We only helped to stop it!

Yes, it was mass murder, but no more so than by the others that I've previously mentioned. I realise the dangers of similarly condemning Stalin, as we do Hitler, in that "Uncle Joe" was our ally, but that still in no way mitigates his crimes against humanity.

Perhaps we could also have Gulag Day just as reminder that the rot was spread further than just one nation.

If Stalin and
Pol Pot had been able to get every Societ citizen, every Khmer to completely agree with their philosophy, they'd have been more than
happy to let them live.

Rubbish. One thing the extreme left does not tolerate is "deviant" thinking. Do you really think that Pol Pot's murderous policy towards anyone with an education, such as doctors and teachers, would have
been altered if such people had said that they agreed with his
policies? Much the same is true of Stalin. Threat, potential threat,
or may not even be a threat - lock 'em up, and worse.

If everyone with an education who was chucked out from the towns had survived and had become busy little peasants in an agrarian utopia, I doubt PP would have devised an industrial-strength process to wipe them out. At least there's no evidence of that. Agreed, he knew there would be massive casualties and accepted thata s the price for his utopian nightmare, but it as not the purpose. The purpose of the Holocaust was the eradication of a group of people for no purpose other than ideology.

So what was Pol Pot's purpose, if not "the eradication of a group of people for no purpose other than ideology."

Hitler didn't care what the Jews were thinking, believing or doing,
or whether they were opposed to his regime or not. The mere fact that
they were Jewish meant they were for the death camps. If you can't
see the difference, I am sorry.

Apart from Britain's endeavours in the fight against such things it is
still not British history.
Yes, but that doesn't in any way contradict my evidence for the unqiueness of the Holocaust, and I notice that you haven't produced any evidence t the contrary. There's a lot of unqiue historical events that are not part of the history of the British Isles..


Historical events are unique in that no two can be exactly alike, if only by virtue of timing! How many do we include and why? Who makes that crucial decision as to what we feed our children - or, just as important, do not feed them, and how far back do we go?

They all deserve equal recognition.
They all deserve recognition. To the victims, it is academic why they
lost their lives. To history, the Pol Pot period in Cambodia is just another in a long line of massacres. The Holocaust is historically unique.

N.
It is not!

T'is too! :-)

'Snot! 'Snot! Did you stomp your feet when you typed this?

N.


No, because I'm not the one getting my hair off about it - you are.

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