Overview

• Jewish leaders and Germany’s antisemitism commissioner call for instruction on the Nazi era to begin in middle school and continue across all school types.
• The Bundesschülerkonferenz backs mandatory visits to concentration camp memorials and presses for more engaging, less purely theoretical teaching.
• Staff at Buchenwald, Dachau and other memorials report low prior knowledge, social‑media‑driven falsehoods and shorter attention spans among visiting students.
• Curricular reviews show many states concentrate extensive Holocaust teaching in upper secondary, with history often merged into mixed subjects and limited hours despite more explicit Holocaust focus than in the 1990s.
• Reports cite rising youth incidents, including disrespectful gestures at memorials and increases in right‑wing cases in several states, while nationwide mandates remain proposals subject to Länder decisions.