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In Modi's Gujarat, Hitler is a textbook hero (Sept 30 2004, Times of India) 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. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/868469.cms SEE ALSO: 'Negative' Gandhi vs 'supremo' Hitler in Gujarat (Sept 30 2004, Hindustan Times) http://www.hindustantimes.com/2004/Sep/30/181_1034391,00080004.htm Gujarat riots 'omitted' from textbooks (Oct 1 2004, NDTV) http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Gujarat+riots+%27omitted%27+from+textbooks&id=61274&headline=Gujarat~riots~'omitted'~from~textbooks Gujarat textbook shows wrong India map [Kashmir not shown in map]: NGO (Sept 28 2004, SIFY) http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=13577377 Cong introduced 'Hitler' books in '86, says BJP (Oct 1 2004, Times of India) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/869780.cms |
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