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Originally Posted by arthursmedley
Why exactly is this school work sheet "Pure postwar-propaganda"? It seems to lay out a basic factual timetable with fairly accurate figures does it not?
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No, it contains wrong information - or at least a bent truth - and the relations are exaggerated. "...the small innocent britain all alone versus the mightly german warfare power..." - in that picture...
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The German onslaught in Western Europe was brought to a halt for the first time.
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But not by the RAF - by The Channel!
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The following year Hitler led the German nation against Russia...
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Thats what allied politics wanted Germany to do since WW1 ended.
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I'd be very interested in hearing how this period of history is taught in German schools these days.
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Well thats different... grown up in the GDR (socialistic) I've got taught a quite extreme version of history. Nowadays its a western based sight, but Germany's self chosen role in the world as a 'Offender nation', which has to bow head about our history, hasn't been overcome yet by our politics (at least I feel so). And so the school stuff is not the same, but similar as in that british sheet. Allies won, because we as the bad ones just couldn't win. We... however... don't get teached pride for our country, even if it has nothing to do anymore with the one from 1933-1945. And maybe thats a pity, but maybe not.