Challenges and opportunities of educational concepts concerning National Socialist crimes in German immigration society

The question of how to teach about the crimes of the national Socialists had been debated among educators for decades. There is the danger of alienating the youth from the topic by exercising moral pressure when discussing the Shoah. The problem is that there is increasing generational distance to National Socialism which results in the Shoah being perceived as simply one brutal period of history among many. This question concerns the Shoah in particular – a crime executed by the German society that constitutes an essential part of the national history and the politics of remembrance