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still become an American hero of the automobile age?

As I observe families across the nation, I wonder why none I've seen have ever put up memorabilia to Holocaust survivors in their living room (unless they were victims or relatives of the Holocaust survivors of any religion or ethnicity). Yet you see on TV pictures of youth with swastika flags and Hitler's picture up on their bedroom wall as part of protest and rebellion...Youth rebellion?

Is Hitler too much of a hero, still, for some youth trying to find their own core identity somewhere? Surely, the teachers haven't talked about the Holocaust enough, especially not in Germany and Russia, with emphasis on the victims or showing the videos of the survivors. Has Europe made the survivors feel really welcome? Are they afraid surviving has become an industry? What's up?

Yet how many 1930s white American bund marchers in Madison Square Garden put up portraits of Hitler in their living rooms, swastikas and other memorabilia of World War Two before and after the war was over? How did the Neo-Nazi youth groups get started in the USA unless they saw portraits of Hitler in living rooms, swastikas in family homes, and other paraphernalia of the war that gave publicity to Hitler? Were their great grandparents sent to the Pacific front instead of Europe? Is that why the Holocaust wasn't mentioned in the home or school enough as a hate crime?

How come on Hitler's birthday, April 20th, there's almost always some tragic event, a shooting, a swastika painted on a house of workship, or other rebellious act of wanton violence? Ever hear of a school shooting on Washington's birthday? No. It's usually Hitler's birthday. He's around with his bogey-man aura way too much. Kids are using Hitler in school as some kind of anti-hero because they don't have a real hero that fights hate. Hitler's image is pulled out to fight diversity fears of the unfamiliar. Evil is familiar. School kids see violence on TV daily.

What's the point of emphasizing evil instead of discussing how the Holocaust survivors managed to escape and what they really saw? There would be no Holocaust deniers if schools taught by showing videos of the Holocaust survivors talking about what they went through to stay alive and what happened to their families?

The problem is psychological. No body wants to keep being reminded of what it feels like to be a victim. Everyone wants a hero, even when the hero is evil. That's why devil worship is popular about rebellious youths

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