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Schools obsessed with Hitler, says Church of England

Schools are perpetuating damaging stereotypes of Germans because of their "obsession" with Hitler and the Second World War, it was claimed yesterday.

The vast numbers of pupils who choose to study the Nazi period in history is fuelling anti-German feeling, the Church of England said.

This undercurrent is reinforced by the large number of war films shown on television and the "drip feed" of anti-German comments in the media, a report said.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)