Anon is a nazi (continued in body)
Anon is a nazi (continued in body)
Tender Childhood Memory
be me
be in fifth grade
the scholastic book fair comes to our school every year
the kids in my class were really into "I Survived" books
"I Survived the Holocaust" is being sold
kids correlate Nazis being German with me
being German and start calling me a Nazi
ask them what a Nazi is, but no one will tell me
too poor to buy the book
ask my stepmom at the time and she screams at me because "I'm too young to know about Nazis" and gets mad at me
too scared to ask teachers or my dad after getting yelled at
kids keep calling me a Nazi for weeks
get pissed
plot revenge
have fake cereal brand with my friend for some reason
never actually made the cereal yet, just pretend it exists and made fake ads for it and shit
tell people I'm finally going to make it
mix the most vile, abhorrent shit I can find in my kitchen together with red food dye and frosted flakes
feed it to the people calling me a Nazi, so most of my class ate it
gave them explosive diarrhea and food poisoning
somehow didn't get in trouble for biological warfare and was never punished by the school
W
forget about it for eight years
randomly remember
tell my dad cause I think it's funny
”Anon, that's exactly what a Nazi would do."
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I guess those kids called it.
“Me being German” yet doesn’t know what a Nazi is. So I assume anon is a ‘Merican of German descent. So not really German German.
I don't think German 5th graders know what Nazis are either, besides being bad if they've heard the term before. At school, history is being covered chronologically, so it takes until 9th or 10th grade to reach WW2. Outside of schools, there's genuinely not that much children will learn about Nazis, if the parents don't decide to actively teach them.
I'm from Germany and me and my classmates deffenetly new what a Nazi is. Not as detailed, but the general concept of Nazis and the holocaust is something you learn very early and that is strongly linked with our culture. We do many things differently, because of our history and on top of that is a never forget attitude, which has the effect that it is regulary talked about, even with kids.
Here in Germany, education about WW2, Holocaust and Nazis is taken rather seriously from a young age. I don’t think I knew anyone by the time I was 10-ish who didn’t have at least a rudimentary understanding that Hitler and the Nazis were the bad guys in WW2, that they tried to kill all jews and that we should strive to not be like that anymore. I can remember that in 3rd or 4th grade we visited the local Synagogue with my clsss and the holocaust certainly was a topic around that time. Child friendly of course, but nonetheless.
Unlike many US states who still don’t teach about slavery, we in Germany try to be aware of our past and our education system reflects that.
Oh you have no Idea. We definitely do know. We not only have this in history but in many other subjects too.
I personally learnt about them first in third grade in school. In "history" we visited local landmarks and statues in our village, and out teacher told us the history behind them. There was a memorial for ww1 and ww2 soliders as well as a Holocaust memorial nearby, so he told us about that. But I sure knew about nazis before then. Just not from school.
Didn't stop me from getting Nazi and Hitler jokes in elementary school because I have a German last name.
You can be a German living in America. I knew someone who was born in Germany but moved to the US at the age of 3, spoke German at home, visited Germany over the summer, etc.
Same, but not Germans, but a bunch of other countries (Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, and India come to mind). I went to a pretty diverse school.
Europeans and their weird entho-gatekeeping.
fuck ethnicities, fuck skin colours, fuck nationalities.
If you can speak a language of a country and put effort into understanding and immersing yourself in the culture of said country you are German/Polish/Danish/Swedish etc etc.
Quite frankly I don't give a shit if your grandmother was Polish if I can't even complain with you how the prices of butter are too high in Polish, or laugh together at stupid fucking memes in Polish.
This is my hot take, and I'm tired of hiding it