A friend in Vienna was telling me yesterday that young Germans today don’t learn much history before 1945, and what history instruction they do receive tends merely to enforce the certain kind of collective guilt that makes them think they have no choice but to receive millions of migrants from hostile cultures.

But we shouldn’t think German education is unique in this regard. I’ve long thought that as the time lengthens from World War II and the Cold War, successive generations would not perceive the same lessons of history.

A friend in Vienna was telling me yesterday that young Germans today don’t learn much history before 1945, and what history instruction they do receive tends merely to enforce the certain kin…{ai:summary}<p>Young Germans today are not learning much history before 1945. The history they do learn promotes a sense of collective guilt, leading them to accept migrants from hostile cultures. This is not unique to German education, as subsequent generations are forgetting the lessons of World War II and the Cold War. A CNN poll supports this notion.</p>

The Daily Chart: The Wages of Ignorance

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