India school book extols Hitler (Reuters via swisspolitics.org)
The 10th grade social studies text book in Gujarat says:
Hitler lent dignity and prestige to the German government in a short time by establishing a strong administrative set-up.
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He adopted a new economic policy and brought prosperity to Germany. He made untiring efforts to make Germany self-reliant within one decade.
All this may be factually correct but his other acts greatly dwarf anything else. The people who wrote the text clearly know this, don't they?
Posted by Harshal at September 30, 2004 03:02 PMI am not sure if this is true but it is a controvertial. I am not sure if it is correct or not to glorify Hitler and his contribution.
Posted by: amit on January 4, 2005 11:48 AMAs a student in the west I am of the opinion that this kind of writings found often in Indian text books is written by naive and ignorant people absolutely unexposed to the world beyond. This sounds horrific to me right now but if I were a teenager reading such misinterpreted text I would naturally build a positive image of Hitler. I quite agree that in Indian myth we celebrate both the demons and the gods hence you may want to look at the reasons behind Hitlers power and popularity but to outwrightly make him a hero is absolute ignorance and its outcome quite disastrous .
Posted by: on January 9, 2005 08:50 PMThese were taken out of context. If you read more of the text you would realize they state many facts that describe the bad that Hitler did.
Posted by: Ralph Madhosingh on April 26, 2005 08:16 AMThese were taken out of context. If you read more of the text you would realize they state many facts that describe the bad that Hitler did.
Posted by: Ralph Madhosingh on April 26, 2005 08:17 AMgreat work
Posted by: Adipex on October 8, 2005 08:24 PM