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Posted by John on 20:54:34 2008/05/09
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HINDUS support ISRAEL posted by Ron
Ron, are you willing to renounce your support of the pro-Hitler regime in Gujurat. If you really support Jews and oppose anti-Semitims, why won't you do this?
Modi's Gujarat worships Hitler
Tina Parekh
240 words
24 July 2005
The Times of India
English
(c) 2005 The Times of India Group
AHMEDABAD: The world over, it would be outrageous to attribute the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews were butchered by Nazis, to German nationalism, without the faintest hint of condemnation.
But not in Gujarat where, a year after the eruption of a controversy over distortion of history in school textbooks, students got updated books that continue to talk about Nazism as "a co-ordination of nationalism and socialism".
In the revised social studies textbooks for classes IX and X, grave distortions persist along with an uncritical appraisal of Hitler and his Nazis.
TOI last year raised the issue of glorification of Hitler in the Class X textbook, but that book is still taught in classrooms across the state because the BJP government took the defence that these books were introduced during the previous Congress regime.
However, there are similar anomalies in the revised Class IX social studies textbook brought out by the Gujarat Textbook Board on March 14, 2005.
In a section on Nazism on page 11, the book makes no mention of the Holocaust, and instead glorifies Hitler. It says, "Hitler adopted aggressive policy and led the Germans towards ardent nationalism."
It goes on to mention, "In thinking of Nazism, there is co-ordination of nationalism and socialism" and that "due to severe nationalism of Italy and Germany and their aggressive policy, the nations of the world thought of forming groups."
In Modi's Gujarat, Hitler is a textbook hero
Harit Mehta
353 words
1 October 2004
The Times of India
English
(c) 2004 The Times of India Group
AHMEDABAD: Gandhi is not so great, but Hitler is. Welcome to high school education in Narendra Modi's Gujarat, where authors of social studies textbooks published by the Gujarat State Board of School Textbooks have found faults with the freedom movement and glorified Fascism and Nazism.
While a Class VIII student is taught 'negative aspects' of Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, the Class X social studies textbook has chapters on 'Hitler, the Supremo' and 'Internal Achievements of Nazism'.
The Class X book presents a frighteningly uncritical picture of Fascism and Nazism. The strong national pride that both these phenomena generated, the efficiency in the bureaucracy and the administration and other 'achievements' are detailed, but pogroms against Jews and atrocities against trade unionists, migrant labourers, and any section of people who did not fit into Mussolini or Hitler's definition of rightful citizen don't find any mention." They committed the gruesome and inhuman act of suffocating 60 lakh Jews in gas chambers" is all the book, authored by a panel, mentions of the holocaust.
The section on 'Ideology of Nazism' reads: "Hitler lent dignity and prestige to the German government within a short time by establishing a strong administrative set up. He created the vast state of Greater Germany. He adopted the policy of opposition towards the Jewish people and advocated the supremacy of the German race. He adopted a new economic policy and brought prosperity to Germany.
He began efforts for the eradication of unemployment. He started constructing public buildings, providing irrigation facilities, building railways, roads and production of war materials. He made untiring efforts to make Germany self-reliant within one decade. Hitler discarded the Treaty of Versailles by calling it just 'a piece of paper' and stopped paying the war penalty. He instilled the spirit of adventure in the common people".
A few classes junior, students in Gandhi's home state read that the Bapu really may have been overrated. In the chapter on 'Gandhian Era and National Movement', there's a section sub-headlined 'The Negative Aspect'.
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