Overview

• Central Council of Jews president Josef Schuster argues that dwindling eyewitnesses and online disinformation make earlier, continuous instruction necessary.
• Federal antisemitism commissioner Felix Klein backs teaching the Nazi era in the Mittelstufe and urges more dedicated history hours instead of merged subjects.
• The Bundesschülerkonferenz calls for mandatory visits to concentration camp memorials to make learning more experiential.
• State curricula reviews show variation over time, with Saxony allocating fewer hours to the Nazi period than in the 1990s (down from 30 to 26 in basic history).
• Memorial educators report low prior knowledge and more open extremist narratives among youths, while schools record sharp increases in right‑motivated incidents in Rhineland‑Palatinate, Saxony and Bavaria.