What do Sweden's teachers know about the Holocaust

Sweden's teachers know too little about the Holocaust. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by the state authority "Living History Forum". But the study's questions were far too specialised and it did more harm than good, writes the Stockholm paper Dagens Nyheter: "The situation is even graver because the topic is so important. It is unworthy to transform the death and suffering of millions of people into subtleties which the authority wants to render significant. Because that is exactly what is happening: if teachers know too little, then we need the 'Living History Forum'. And this situation is not eased by the fact that there are indeed gaps in our knowledge. The study distracts from questions that really are important: what kind of gaps do teachers have in their knowledge? Can they get students to recognise historical connections and have them draw their own well-balanced conclusions?"

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