My heart skipped a beat when I saw that genocide was back on the German curriculum, but don’t worry: they’re just teaching about it, and reversing an earlier decision, under Turkish pressure, to drop this teaching. From DPA, with thanks to Cathy J. Palmer:
BERLIN – Defusing a row after alleged Turkish pressure forced removal of the Armenian genocide from German public school curriculums, a state premier said on Tuesday the 1915 killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would be again be taught in history classes.
Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck admitted it had been a mistake to remove all mention of the genocide from his state’s education ministry website curriculum planner.
The Armenian genocide – which had been used as the only example in history classes other than the Holocaust – will now be returned to high schools along with other cases of 20th century genocide, he said.