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Durp... I'm a bit puzzled with how the school would even allow it considering children's literature and Nazis don't go together, and I really have to question parent(s) that think a Nazi outfit is the way to go for this event.
Of course, we should remember that early Nazism was perceived to be about the glorification of the country and the race, and about athletic youngsters (including girls!) frolicking in the mountains, and officers wearing snappy uniforms - not about the mass extermination of a people. That relatively wholesome image is one reason why the Nazi threat was not taken seriously.
Wow, you have to be kidding. Or not. See, there are these things called "books", especially "history" books, that you can "read" and which will provide you with knowledge of the world and its' past, including major wars and the resulting horrors. Not everyone relies on television or movies for the totality of their knowledge.
Kids are no longer reading books anymore. They are texting each other, snap chatting and gaming. They have no idea what real reading is, and the schools are forced to dumb down or fail the bulk of the class, which cost money to remedy.
Since this headline is about a situation in Australia, I doubt as an American that I can conclude that my growing up in the 50's here in the USA would compare. I have no idea what part if any Australia played in the history of wars.
I do remember many news reels repeatedly showing Nikita Khruschev saying..."We will bury you" Which is easily found online to this day.
And drills in school involving hunching down under our desks....which later I learned was to enable the body count should the worst happen.
But, I think the parents should have given more thought to how they were dressing up their child....regardless.
The day was book related. Maybe the kid's favorite book was Anne Frank. Or maybe he had been in the play The Sound Of Music.
Children love to dress up as monsters. Look at how many zombies, ghosts, and Freddy's there are at Halloween. Just because the kid dressed up as Hitler doesn't mean he was advocating racism or genocide. He could have been fully aware that Hitler was a monster.
Veering way off the track of the politically correct, the German uniforms looked sharp. If the uniform was well done, maybe the child really was the best dressed. Getting votes for sharp creases in his pants does not mean that the student body was approving of genocide.
The day was book related. Maybe the kid's favorite book was Anne Frank. Or maybe he had been in the play The Sound Of Music.
Children love to dress up as monsters. Look at how many zombies, ghosts, and Freddy's there are at Halloween. Just because the kid dressed up as Hitler doesn't mean he was advocating racism or genocide. He could have been fully aware that Hitler was a monster.
Veering way off the track of the politically correct, the German uniforms looked sharp. If the uniform was well done, maybe the child really was the best dressed. Getting votes for sharp creases in his pants does not mean that the student body was approving of genocide.
I agree. The Wehrmacht always looked very sharp, and the Schutzstaffel dressed to the nine's, all the way down to the cuff-links.
Nevertheless, when does one start reading such books? How many children these days read?
Further, when does one start to understand the horrors of such events, that they were really bad things?
In 7th and 8th grade, one of my "favorite" books in the library was an Amnesty International report on torture in Greece. Given a constant stream of Roger Corman flicks on TV and a certain encouragement to be blood thirsty, I could not appreciate that what I was readying was bad.
When does one start to learn about such things and when does one start to learn that they are indeed horrors?
I learned in elementary school in the midwest, with the diary of Anne Frank as required reading, as did my children in school in the south, along with Elie Wiesel's book NIGHT. It was also a part of world history classes in middle/high school.
As far as I know these books are still a part of the reading requirements at many schools, and world history still covers these topics in HS classes.
And it sounds as though you are roughly my age so maybe you heard about the documentary series The World at War, a very graphic and horrifying account of WWII that ran on TV for months in the early 70's?
I fail to see how one could manage to get through the typical US high school and not understand how horrific these things were.
A child may not understand what Hitler did and what he represents, but I don't understand how the child's parents could let him go to school dressed as Hitler.
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I'm a bit puzzled with how the school would even allow it considering children's literature and Nazis don't go together, and I really have to question parent(s) that think a Nazi outfit is the way to go for this event.
