Word: neven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What do you know about Hitler? Pointing his movie camera into dozens of high school classrooms, Frankfurt TV Reporter Jiirgen Neven-DuMont put his question to scores of German students aged 15 to 17. Telecast last week, their answers displayed a surprising ignorance of Nazi turpitude. In fact, nine out of every ten students either knew nothing at all about Adolf Hitler or thought that he had accomplished more good than harm. Sample replies...
Teachers interviewed by Neven-DuMont blamed their pupils' ignorance on "crammed curricula," which allow no time for history since 1918. The German press had other ideas. Warned Die Welt: "There is something rotten in our German schools...