Personally I think that the holocaust should not be a compulsory topic of teaching. It should be part of teaching about ww2 just as the DDay landings The Battle of Britain and Singapore are.

And when we do teach about the holocaust the whole story should be told not just that of the Jews. Sure if you believed the Jewish history you would only think the Jews died in the Holocaust but there were also millions of Gypsies, Communists, Gays, Metal Retards, Germans who were apposed to the Nazi’s and many others who were killed.

I have read her book and been too Anne Franks house in Amsterdam and both were very interesting and it was a very sad story. Mind you Anne Frank was only 1 of 55 million killed during the war and I am sure all the others who have died have just as sad a story to tell as she does.

It should also be asked do the Jews practice what they preach? Sure they complain about mass murder and bring those who did the crimes to justice which I fully support. But when the war criminal is a Jew it’s a different story! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4659985.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Morel
Should the story of the Jews who murder countless thousands of Germans in revenge attacks also be taught? No according to Israel! A dead German is nothing, A dead Jew is everything! And with there attitude towards the Palestine’s the Jews are hardly making an effort to change histories view of them as awhole.

I think the question also needs to be asked as too why the Nazi and practically everybody before them hated the Jews? I think in the end it is due to the there arrogant’s and refusal to integrate and be come part of a nation like every other group of people who migrate do (or used too). As we have seen in repeated surveys multiculturalism destroys peoples sense of community and trust that they have for the fellow country men and I would imagine that it would have been the same story back then as well.

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Jews are far to touchy on the subject! I remember hearing about Prince Harry wearing an Africa Corps shirt to a party and a French Jewish friend of mine almost exploded when I said I didn’t have a problem with it. I though for a second he was going to hit me! But I explained to him that I am not Jewish and the Holocaust has as bigger effect on me as what the communist and Stalin did in Russia or Moa’s “Great leap forward” or the effects “year zero” had on the Cambodians. All sad events in history but all have the similar level of effect on me! Mind you thats to the whinging Jews you hear about one of them more then you do of the others.

The Holocaust is a sad story I have a foot in both camps seeing that I have both Lutheran and Jewish family who emigrated to Australia over 100 years ago from Germany so I can see both sides. I some times think of the parts of my families who did not emigrate to Australia and if they perhaps turned on and attacked the Jewish side or the Jewish side took revenge on the German side of my family! Its all very sad.

Well yes, and well no! Does the world of yesterday really matter? and it does. Parts of time should be forgotten, but we all know, man cant go on without reminders of. I think it should be taught with the up-most reflections and of a time that has gone by.

We all still think of yesterday, than where we are going, and what Ive tried to put to all of you is, Just be careful! Cause with our minds, we create the world. And that's a fact.

HOLOCAUST INDIFFERENCE.. is what can definitely happen if we are exposed to repeated images and talks about it.

In the same way that the Christian Gospel becomes (not can, but does) 'ordinary stuff' to many Christians because they hear it so much, or read about it.. unless we can see the Holocaust as something 'out' of the ordinary, an abbheration, then, familiarity will surely breed contempt.

I think a better approach would be to have a 'Historic Milestones' section of the history curriculum.

Major Milestones would be:

1/ From the time of Christ to Constantine.
2/ Rise of Islam and it's attempt at world domination. (including the holocaust against Indians and others)
3/ Defeat of invading Muslims in 732 by Charles Martel.
4/ Reasons behind the Crusades.
5/ Defeat of the invading Muslims in 1600s at the Gates of Vienna.
6/ Defeat of the entrenched Muslims in Spain/Portugal along with a study of the dangers of movements which can result in such extremes as the Inquisition.
7/ Balkan politics/Causes of WW1 with the connection to Ottoman invasions in the past.
8/ Connection between point 4, WW1 and 2 and how a man like Hitler could gain ascendency with never more than 37% of the democratic vote.

9/ The nature and neccessity of Alliances to maintain power balances.
10/ How alliances saved Australia from Japanese Imperialism.

Most Aussies don't have the slightest clue about such things.

So, yes, the Jewish Holocaust should be PART of an overall study of nation states, international relations and ideologies.

kids should be raised in a barrel, with surgically implanted earphones, to make simple their education. so that when they are old enough to work, they'll only have the right ideas.

in short, just like now, only a little better due to reduced traffic accidents.

'holocaust' not necessary, just a generic compulsion to love and hate what the pollies tell them to love and hate.

Yes definately....

How can we ignore any form of genocide? How will generations learn from our past mistakes if they arent studied and discussed??

I gained alot of my knowledge from studying "The Diary of Anne Frank" as part of the English curriculum in high school. I also remember watching a movie called "the Holocaust" or "Austwitz" when I was much younger...than later "Schindlers List"

How could we exclude one history's worst atrocities in the education of our children?