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RACISM BEGINS AT HOME

“I’m sorry coach, but I can’t play this game.” A star quarterback had pulled Coach Norbert Ehrenfreund aside just as the championship game was about to kick off. It was autumn of 1945. The war in Europe and Japan was over, and U.S. soldiers were still stationed in...

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UNDERSTAND THE PAST. PROTECT THE FUTURE.

After four days of fighting near the end of WWII in Europe, on April 20, 1945, Nuremberg fell to the U.S. Army. It was Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Nuremberg was the Nazis “shrine city,” home to annual Party Rallies in a huge stadium where Hitler announced to cheering...

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HOW THE COURTROOM 600 PROJECT STARTED

My parents were children of the Great Depression, a time when economic hardship was the norm and thriftiness a habit carried forward. In addition to scrimping with money, the “Silent Generation” was also scant on information sharing. Case in point: my 89-year-old...

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WHY NUREMBERG MUST BE TAUGHT, NOW

A school district in Wisconsin said the First Amendment prevented it from punishing students in this picture, in which many are making what appears to be a Nazi salute. Source: Peter Gust, via Associated PressDave FriptHistory Teacher Emeritus, Latin School of...

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