Comments by "Widdekuu91" (@Widdekuu91) on "Do Germans Talk About World War II? What Do They Teach About the Holocaust? | Feli from Germany" video.

  1. I am from the Netherlands and in schools, around April-May, the WW2 stuff always started coming up again. My surrounding teenage classmates were always a bit nonchalant (to say the least) and did not really see the importance of it being discussed, but we're talking troubled-teens here, so maybe that's logical then. So every now and then, they included a horrifying little detail or picture, to get everyone's attention. I am a special little snowflake myself and would not be able to shake off ány of the stories I heard (let alone footage I saw) so whenever we learned shit in historyclass, I would walk around with that image for a few weeks (and some images are still in my head to this day.) For that same reason, I don't like to watch warmovies that much (depending on the warmovie) and I refused to go inside a concentrationcamp when my (ridiculous) exboyfriend surprised me by making us visit one. I always find that if jokes are not about the victims or ridiculing them, but moreso a word-joke or a joke about Hitler getting angry after being send away from artschool, I think the jokes are fine. I've accidentally made the mistake of using WK (WereldKampioenschappen, in Dutch the WorldCup) in a conversation that ended badly, because I teased the German about losing. I didn't know the WK was Weltkrieg (WorldWar) in German. Either way, if I was a bit more strong mentally, I would feel like I owed it to the victims to do more research (a.k.a. read more books and learn more) about WW2, but I have zero mental stability right now and regularly cry for 2 hours about the situation in Ukraine, and I'm not even from there. I need more hope and trust in humanity and learning about ovens and nazi's doesn't help that at all.
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