I’m just curious what people like Marco Rubio and Mark Zuckerberg, who are passively supportive of the installation of authoritarianism, would have learned at school about that period in Germany.
I’m asking this as that question and not as a leading question into a discussion on today’s politics.
What is the level of awareness the average American person in their 40s and 50s on how the Third Reich started?
Obligatory butt-in from a European: I just wanted to provide a baseline for comparison.
Here in scandinavialand we watched The Wave (1981) in school to educate us on how easily a population can be convinced to support fascism.
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55LkspO5ZU
We were shown this, but it’s not specifically about the war and more about racism:
Jane Elliott “Blue Eyes - Brown Eyes” Experiment Anti-Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLAi78hluFc
I’m Canadian, I remember watching The Wave in school too. I don’t recall much focus on the “here’s how fascism and authoritarianism rises” thing, but there must have been something to contextualize watching that movie that I’m not remembering.