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Do you have a library card for the Salt Lake County library system? They have this book. It addresses this. In large measure, East Germany pounded into its citizenry the evils about Nazism. After all, East Germany was governed by Soviets until the end of the Cold War. While West Germany took a more passive approach, because their shift focused to reintegration with the west and becoming a bulwark against Communist expansion. It wasn't until the 1960s when children of citizens who were born under Nazi rule became adults that they began to become appalled at what their parents had supported/committed. Many of their parents were shameful of the past. Some might've still been proud and thought that Hitler had been right. But the children stepped up to the plate to discover the truth. And when they did, they were disgusted. Hence, a wave of additional Nazi crimes were prosecuted in the 1960s and anti-Nazi research and education began (and continues to this day).
Amazon product ASIN 0374184461View: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Germans-Race-Memory-Evil/dp/0374184461
I can't help but wonder if The Lost Cause and much of the tribulation we've had since the close of the Civil War could've been avoided if Reconstruction had been allowed to proceed past 1877 and with greater vigor towards economic, social, and political equality. Unfortunately, we, much like West Germany, tried to sweep that whole "slavery thing" under the rug and then allowed Lose Cause myths to become thee narrative. And we're still dealing with the wreckage because of it. Trump unfortunately taps into the population of 30-40 percent who frankly, don't believe that POC, women, and LGBTs are equal to them. They want to maintain a racial patriarchal hierarchy. They see equality as discrimination against their protected and advantaged positions.
This is another good read:
Amazon product ASIN 1541644980View: https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Whiteness-Politics-Resentment-Heartland/dp/1541644980
In it he talks to a man dying of liver failure. The man could've had health care but his (red) state refused to expand Medicaid. The author continues to question him about it and why he blamed Obama for all of his miseries. Finally the guy broke down and admitted that he'd be dying for lack of health care but at least those "others" (POC) wouldn't be getting Medicaid expansion either. It was a powerful moment in the book because it reveals so much about America today. Whether we're talking about gun violence, the (failed) war on drugs, health care, book bans, and confronting our own history, so much goes back to racial resentment.
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