California junior high school students asked to decide whether or not the Holocaust was a hoax
By The research assignment is here, and really needs to be read in its entirety. It includes three historical summaries, two of which are conventional if necessarily superficial descriptions of the Nazi regime’s mass murder of approximately two-thirds of Europe’s Jews, as well as enormous numbers of Roma, disabled persons, and Soviet prisoners of war. The third, which is presented to these 14-year-old children with no indication to them that its credibility might be in some way questionable, is a lunatic rant from a Holocaust denial web site.