Why Banning Dark Periods of History From Schools Is Unpatriotic

Take it from a German: Teaching the unadorned truth about the past leads students on a path of true respect and love for their country

Yvonne Vávra
GEN
Published in
10 min readFeb 19, 2022

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A culture that shuts out parts of its identity is in danger of disintegrating into a mere myth. Photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels

This past fall, a 96-year-old woman in Germany went on the run. She took a cab in the early morning hours from her nursing home and…

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Yvonne Vávra
GEN
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Author. Berliner born behind the wall. New Yorker to a fault. I write about how to get on with the business of being human. May contain traces of hope.