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It's easier to think of Nazis as just evil and incompetent. The uncomfortable truth is that a significant part of their platform was popular, especially in the beginning of their rule. They were also extremely competent early on, it wasn't until Hitler was in full on drug psychosis that things started going down hill. Expecting something the Nazis did, especially early on to be unpopular and a massive red flag is just foolish on the teacher.

It would be better if we focused more on the uncomfortable parts of Nazi Germany. Their militarization efforts pulled them out of global recession faster than everyone else. Jewish segregation was inspired by the US treatment of African Americans. Jesse Owens was treated better in Nazi Germany than in the US despite being a national hero. The eugenics movement was also massively popular in the US and elsewhere. There was a lot of luck involved in the war in Europe going as well as it did, Germany winning wasn't ever really realistic unless the US aided them, but things could have been much worse.

The problem is that actually running such an experiment properly and bringing home the conclusion of the horrors of fascism would be grossly unethical and impossible to do. (Some university psychology/sociology courses did similar things in the 1960s, though experimental ethics rules back then were flimsy.)

The Nazis didn't introduce separate schools for boys and girls, in contrary they started to teach boys and girls together. The separation existed already before the Nazis.

The history teacher should have read up on blue eyes/brown eyes experiment and copied that one instead: https://appliedhuman.com/social-experiments,/sociology,/1968/2023/11/07/jane-elliott-blue-brown-eyes.html

The problem is that it didn't carry on further. The beginnings of most ideologies sound fine but it's the reality and the shunning of "the other" where you start to see the horrors.

fake: anon goes to school

gay: separated from girls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(2008_film)

> fascism appeals to the stupidest, most brutish, hierarchy-oriented people in society
> Give young teens a taste

The true horror is asking the same questions again to the same people 8 years later... and getting the same answers again.

Hilarious but i'm surprised that year 9s would not understand the reference, and would even fall for that? Maybe anon doesn't realise that his class is messing with the teacher because they understand what he's doing.

My class in year 9, we had to watch Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and the most troublemaking boys just stood up and T-Posed because there was a scene where kids were playing by pretending to be aeroplanes. Teacher got mad and didn't let us finish the film.

Also in year 9 the guy sat next to me spent his time trying to convince me the nazis "weren't so bad"

It's one of those key formative years

I doubt kids at the peak horny stage of their lives would be happy to be separated like that.