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Still shown in schools?


I saw Night & Fog in my Grade 9 History class. Before the film started, the teacher warned us that it was disturbing and said that we can turn our heads away during the graphic scenes if we wanted to. But he also stressed that it was important to realize what happened during the Holocaust.

That was back in 1982. I'm curious to know if this film is still allowed to be shown in schools to this day. Anyone?

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I did a film course for my a levels, and we did a topic on documentrys, and we watched this. It was in collage know, and I was 17 so I dont know if this is the information you wanted. But the teacher also warned us (only 4 us their btw), sayign we might be disturbed?

Try drinking bleach, its fun?

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Thanks, but I was thinking more along the lines of high school history classes.

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Yeah, grade 12 World Issues class. We just watched it today. I hope it continues to be shown in school when talking about the Holocaust, or Genocide in general.

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Saw it at school when i was around 14 or 15 years old, in the early 90s.

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Yeah, we just watched it in English.

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One of the things about U.S schools that drive lots of folks nuts is how decentralized they are. Most other nations have uniform nationwide educational standards (and even curricula), but not the U.S. For us: schools in different states and regions and cities differ, schools in different districts differ, even individual teachers in the same school differ.

(I personally think this decentralization is a big advantage rather than a problem, but that's a different discussion:-)

My own experience (and this is just one school - others will be significantly different) is that these days whether or not something is shown in school is mostly driven by technical issues. If it's on Youtube, or hosted digitally on some other website, or if a DVD can be easily rented, it will likely be shown. But if it's only available on film and so requires a film projector, anything less than top shelf material is practically invisible.

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We were shown this film, with no permission slips or warnings, in 6th grade! When the lights were turned on, everyone seemed a little disturbed, but some of my class mates actually alerted me that I had gone white. I had a physiological reaction to this film - the blood left my face. Most disturbing image: an alive but very sickly looking man, is lying on a tray, photographed from directly above as the tray is shoved into some enclosure, immediately followed by a shot from the same vantage point of the tray being removed with the same man, now completely charred - someone actually set up a camera and nonchalantly filmed a before and after of a man being burned alive in an oven! At what age is someone ready to see that?

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