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Originally Posted by JFK'ER
You can see the revisionism in Lufthansa's promotional material. I remember receiving brochures from them where they covered their history from the '30s on up. They had the Condors and JU-52's etc but they never showed the swastika on the tail. I'm curious whether German schools teach Nazi history to kids pre-school on up.
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They do, even more than US students learn about it. From the Thule Society around the turn of the century, WWI incl. Gen. Ludendorff and flying ace Hermann Göring, the Versailles treaty, the 1920s great depression, Weimar, rise of Hitler, first anti-jewish actions in 1933, Reichstag burnt down, first concentration camps set up against political opponents, the Olympics in 1936, Rhineland militarized, Czech Republik annexed, Poland raided, WWII, Russia, Holocaust, 6 million jews dead, 11 million shoah victims altogether, bombing of the German cities, defeat and unconditional surrender - we learn it all, albeit history is only taught from 5th grade onwards. However, non-violence is taught from pre-school on, and bits like the holocaust are taught from 1st grade on, in a way understandable to children (like in form of jewish children´s diaries rom the 3rd Reich).
A lot of the old pictures were "edited" by the Allied Forces in the late 1940s/early 1950s. These can´t be restored without destroying the origial material. Displaying swastikas in history books and similar documents is not banned by law. Then again, perhaps they did not show the insignia to respect the feelings of countries such as Israel, Russia et al that have suffered greatly under the swastika (Israel itself suffered indirectly, but greatly nonetheless).
It is a good thing that we learn so much about what happened during the 3rd Reich, and that atrocities like the shoah and the SS brutality against civilians is up for discussion rather than denial. I sometimes wish that other countries did the same, like Japan in respect to the war crimes and atrocities in China, Mandshuria and Korea, Turkey in respect to the Armenian genocide - I think that only knowledge of history, and not denial, can prevent these things from happening again.