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I really dislike the cartoon-ification of Nazi's, as well as the overloading of that word. It's really impossible for most people nowadays to understand the sca
by localplume 4y ago
I really dislike the cartoon-ification of Nazi's, as well as the overloading of that word. It's really impossible for most people nowadays to understand the scale of industrialized hatred that occurred.
Also quote from the wikipedia article about "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" which is shown in many UK schools as part of Holocaust education:
"Research by Holocaust educator Michael Gray found that more than three-quarters of British schoolchildren (ages 13–14) in his sample had engaged with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, significantly more than The Diary of Anne Frank. The film was having a significant effect on many of the children's knowledge and beliefs about the Holocaust. The children believed that the story contained a lot of useful information about the Holocaust and conveyed an accurate impression of many real-life events. The majority believed that it was based on a true story. He also found that many students drew false inferences from the film, such as assuming that Germans would not have known anything about the Holocaust because Bruno's family did not, or that the Holocaust had stopped because a Nazi child had accidentally been gassed. Other students believed that Jews had volunteered to go to the camps because they had been fooled by Nazi propaganda, rather than being violently rounded up and deported."
Not to mention that the movie has the absolute weirdest perspective of getting the audience to empathize with a German boy from a family of Nazis, not the actual victims of the Holocaust, as well as trivializing the hatred perpetuated by the Nazis. Its work like that which seems harmless to most people but it is massively damaging.