On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:01:35 +0100, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

This story has no basis in fact, at all.

I asked them what they studied of WWII. They said almost nothing.

It is simply impossible that
you have experienced that, unless it was during the 50s - where we
didn't have Gesamtschulen. You're either a liar or you have been lied
to - sorry!

I think my witness was in a Realschule in the '80's, and his integrity
was pretty much unimpeachable. What possible reason could he have had
for lying to me, when the question was meant to compare each other's
education, and the political feeling at the time was not nearly as
negative as it is today?

In turn, he seemed rather taken aback that I, in our studies of
European history in the public schools (such as it was), spent so much
time looking over WWII and the events leading up to it.

I also didn't find any Germans who could actually identify the
pictures on the coins of the Republic, except for a single 80-year-old
woman who remarked that she thought it was Adenauer.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card