The game is in Cincinnati. They did a piece on the Cincinnati train station. And the station had a recent exhibition about the Holocaust. Can you name anything else from the 40s that gets brought up as much?
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A lot of the narrative came into being after the war. Not saying everything was fake, but things weren't as presented, and most people have been taught to believe WW2 happened in a way it didn't, and for reasons it didn't.
The Holocaust narrative is a lot like the narratives around Hitler. Where its apparently just a game of "say the worst possible thing and attach it to it, whose gonna defend it?" and you end up with things like death coasters and shit fetishes that defy any reasonability.
Its really boring, because in both cases the actual truth is likely plenty interesting or horrific enough.
When I was in high school a decade ago it was 1 million jews, and 5 million of cripples, mentally deficient, gypsies, Poles, and everyone else in a mix of concentration camps and being worked to death. Which seemed bad enough to me, no need to lie about it.
Did they give you graphic depictions of camp line rapes in middle school? I had those. Told from the POV of a holobunga "survivor'.
Nope, just "some were starved to death, some were shot, some were gassed, and others worked to death. Mostly they were buried in mass graves discovered after the war and some were cremated en masse." You know, probably the truth. Bad things happening in a war dont need to be embellished, that's just stupid.
Weird, I was in highschool almost 20 years ago (granted in Canada) and we were taught it was 6 million Jews and 5 million cripples, gypsies, homosexuals, political prisoners and Poles.
6 gorillian didn’t even start as a modern Holobunga # unil 1900. Wait that was before the Holobunga!
Mine was a few decades ago and it was "around 5-6 million Jews and about that many of the cripples, gays, gypsies, etc." And we even spent some time on a "famous" cripple who was grabbed so it wasn't fully brushed aside. It seemed pretty to the point and unembellished, because the numbers were large enough to be meaningless beyond "big" and they didn't spend much time hammering home the grisly details.
Perhaps it was because it was the dirty South, but they spent far more time and emotional energy on Slavery/Civil War and the Indian wars/massacres. WW2 and the Holocaust was basically just given a pretty general note compared to even the Revolutionary War.
The only real notable time we ever spent was one teacher made us read Number the Stars and that was treated no different than any other book assignment. We never even had to do Anne Frank.