Genocides and History

The Nuremberg Laws

What were they?
They were rules, formulated in 1935 by the Nazis which formed the building blocks of the discrimination between 'Aryans' and 'Jews'. Under these laws, it was forbidden for for any Jew to marry an Aryan or vice-versa. No Aryan could be employed by the Jews as their domestic help.
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But what is surprising was how could people ACTUALLY think of such rules, and implement them.
Almost 6 million Jews died. It was a genocide, the word itself was coined after this massacre.

It is probably considered general knowledge to know the basics about the holocaust, as it comes under the World War II, but hey my history books never went beyond the death toll, and the dictatorship of the Nazis. Adolf Hitler, and his inhuman ways of treating Jews, his downfall, his suicide. All in brief.
We were never taught about the details or this horror. I know one can say proximity is a good reason, but World War I and II are always taught in detail, so why not the holocaust?
Yes, it was a bitter chapter in human history, but everyone needs to know what happened, maybe in 10th grade, a 15 year old has a good mind, they will not instantly judge, and the motive behind teaching this event shouldn't be to create hatred against Germans, or sympathy for Jews, but to teach what stereotypes and hatred can result into. It's an example, the entire history is an example, to make sure we do not repeat those mistakes, though that's not true and we still commit the same mistakes over and over, but kids today need to know such horrendous acts took place, they need to know it happened, and that it should not happen again. I believe it could instill some level of tolerance among them. We need people to be tolerant. Tolerant to religion, language, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality etc.
How many of us knew about the Rwandan genocide of 1994 till we saw ' Hotel Rwanda' or studied only at college about the ' CNN effect'.
How many of knew about the Cambodian genocide of 1975 under the Khmer rouge regime, which slaughtered 1.5 million people?
Very few.
And why are we only taught about the European revolutions? French Revolution is as important as Latin American revolution, or the African revolution. It would be nice to study details about Nelson Mandela's freedom struggle. How various countries got their independence from their colonial powers, some literature from those eras could do wonders.
And our great Indian revolution, it's so much more than the way it is presented in our history text books. I could be sounding a history geek right now, but the fact is we were not educated enough. If math and science are important, so are social studies, they in fact, shape your opinions, what your teacher in school teaches you, you shall always remember, because at that point of time, you are probably listening and not hearing. I wish they would pick up more history and literature from around the world, and not make it just facts and dates, history has a purpose, if it is served, it can help in creating some peace today. Probably, maintain some harmony which we desperately need.
My professor once said' History is about the victor, not the vanquished', well we need to know about the vanquished too, or else we continue to repeat history over and over and over.