I’m just curious what people like Marco Rubio and Mark Zuckerberg, who are passively supportive of the installation of authoritarianism, would have learned at school about that period in Germany.
I’m asking this as that question and not as a leading question into a discussion on today’s politics.
What is the level of awareness the average American person in their 40s and 50s on how the Third Reich started?
So much of English class, not even any history classes I had, was covering the Holocaust. US History covered everything from Columbus up to and including WW2. I also had European History in highschool, but we only got up to the War of the Roses (and frankly my teacher sucked so I didn’t retain much from that class).
But I live in California; one of the most progressive states in the country. Even a shitty school here can be better than the best school in, say, West Virginia; the state with the lowest scoring education system.