“Ile-de-France wants to interfere in educational content by exploiting history and memories” | EUROtoday

Pby way of an modification to the finances of the Ile-de-France area, the political group of Valérie Pécresse [Les Républicains] determined to“enter into partnerships with memorial institutions dedicated to crimes [des] communist regimes in central and eastern Europe » with a view to integrating them into the educational curriculum of Ile-de-France high schools. This initiative received the support and applause of elected representatives of the National Rally during the session. Going beyond the skills of a region, Ile-de-France therefore wants to interfere in educational content by exploiting history and memories.

The explanatory memorandum for this amendment, adopted on December 17, constitutes a summary of a drift by political leaders who use historical facts for their own calendar and thus maintain intellectual confusion. Such confusion threatens to relativize Nazism and fascism and trivialize their crimes. For example, after recalling the long-standing partnership between the Ile-de-France high schools and the Shoah Memorial, this amendment indicates that it wants to extend it to “other forms of political repression” who marked the twentieth^e century. Reducing the crime in opposition to humanity that was the Shoah to political repression ought to have made the elected representatives of the Republic leap… This was, sadly, not the case.

Thus, among the many new partnerships proposed by the regional proper, a number of concern problematic establishments already identified by historians or associations of Jewish reminiscence. Many museums on communism in Eastern Europe, a number of memorials, marked by post-1990 nationwide views, have a tendency to reduce Nazism to higher emphasize the violence dedicated by the Soviet regime and the legitimacy to fight it.

Mitigating National Responsibility

Among the partnerships indicated, the House of Terror in Hungary was created on the initiative of President Victor Orban. It presents in the identical story the crimes of the Arrow Cross regime, Hungarian fascists allied with the Nazis, and people of the communist regime. Thus an equivalence is drawn between two ideologies and their crimes, and the specificity of the fascist regimes allied to Nazi Germany is minimized: anti-Semitism. This House of Terror is headed by Maria Schmidt, who was additionally, for a time, accountable for the Shoah museum mission denounced by Jewish organizations and historians as an try to rewrite the historical past of the Shoah in Hungary by mitigating nationwide accountability.

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