American publishers of history textbooks used in the New York City public schools, and in many other cities, were assailed in an official study here today of “passyfooting” and “sugar-coating” the crimes committed by the Hitler regime. The report, based on a three-month study by a three-man committee of the Association of Teachers of Social Studies, recommended revision of the textbooks.
According to the committee that conducted the study, the textbooks provide “inadequate treatment” of the subject of genocide practiced by the Nazis and fail to show what happened to Jews and other minority groups under the Jurisdiction of the Nazi regime. The committee recommended that revised textbooks should “present the ghastly story of Nazi crimes and Nazi bestiality in their true perspective, so that students will understand the pathological enthusiasm and meticulous care with which the Nazis devised fantastic efforts to slaughter millions of fellow men.”
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