Class trips to the sites of concentration camps are mandatory for many German high-school students. The state of Bavaria is now considering a law to extend the requirement to all students in its secondary schools, but some local politicians are raising an objection—and Soeren Kern explains why:
In a recent parliamentary debate on the issue, the parliamentarian Klaus Steiner explained [that],”especially in secondary schools, we have immigrants and the children of asylum seekers. Among them are many children from Muslim families who have no connection to our past and who will need much more time before they can identify with our history. We need to be careful about how we address this issue with these children.” . . .
The debate over Holocaust education comes at a time of growing Islamic anti-Semitism in Germany. . . . [A]nti-Semitic hate crimes increased by 25 percent, in 2014 and . . . much of the increase was due to attacks perpetrated by Muslim immigrants.
Read more on Gatestone: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5929/germany-muslims-holocaust-education