Contrast this with how Germany treats educating its children about the past. All German children in school are taught specifically about the Nazi era, from a very young age. They’re taken on tours of concentration camps. They read unvarnished first-hand accounts by Jewish and other people persecuted by German authorities.

This begins at about the same time they learn to read.

Rather than paper over its history, the German state has decided knowing that history is critical for every resident of the country, so nothing like that ever happens again.

Many people say that one of the reasons Germany is something like the moral heart of Europe right now (not that German state policy is perfect of course), is because of the hard realities German people face up to from the youngest ages.