Substitute teacher movie: Holocaust Denier???

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  1. Xboxoneandsports32490

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    Well was watching like this movie on YouTube called “The Substitute” I believe! Well anyways, in this clip there is a character in the video who does truly “Deny the Holocaust”! In front of his whole classroom!!! He apparently claims the Nazis only killed roughly around 300,000 Jews total, and claims that is “not enough casualties” to be considered a “Real Holocaust”???

    What’s your take on that video? If you were in the “same classroom” as that particular person; What would you say to him or tell him about his “Holocaust Denial”???
     
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    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    In an article about films about troubled teens, The A.V. Club stated: "There have been plenty of movies about white people coming into inner-city schools and whipping the students into shape, but nothing quite like The Substitute, which brings the subtly racist, paternalistic elements of those films right to the surface."[12]
     
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    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    What happened during my school days was the complete reverse and a little known chapter in UK history.

    Being just after WW2, teachers we in short supply, meaning that many of them had come out of retirement from either teaching or the subjects they were teaching.
    At that age, we did not pick up on the fact that several of our teachers were German.

    At the outbreak of war, as per the convention, German citizens were allowed safe passage to leave the UK. But a high number of them decided to stay and face our prison camps.
    Fortunately Winston Churchill realised that these were German Jews, fleeing the Nazi uprising.
    Rather than imprison people who hated the Nazis as much as we did, conditions were set for them to remain free. This was an agreement to have no contact with Germany and report to a police station daily, (Later changed to weekly), not meet up in groups, or travel within 5 miles of a military establishment, along with many other other conditions.
    Being well educated, one of the few jobs that they were allowed to do was teach.
    It worked extremely well and at the end of the war, many of them applied for British citizenship and spent the rest of their lives in the UK.

    Other of our teachers had fled from countries such as Poland as the German occupation advanced.
     
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