I wrote a ten page seminar paper on this subject for the final requirement of my Bachelor's degree in history.
I failed to note that condemnation of Hitler and the Holocaust was obligatiory. I actually considered it irrelevant to my topic as it became clear in my research that the youth resistance movement had nothing to do with ideology and was just a formation of young people in reaction to the absolute expectations upon them by society at large. I wrote a page or two about how factors such as the parents lack of total support of Nazism combined with the ideological expectations of school and church left them confused about how to believe, and may have mentioned that they were not old enough to understand the consequences of their decisions on their future. I also mentioned that they may not have physically lived up to the prevalant notion of Germanity at that time. At no point did I describe them as heros holding high ideals.
I think the icing on the cake was that I dedicated a large portion of the paper to describing what the state could have done differently concerning these young people, who I described as marginalized and may have compared to school shooters only in my mind so that word choice may have given a hint of it, so that they would have been more willing to join the group experience.
Im not sure if I really did this or not, but when my research led me to the relevance of "sippinhaft" I may have used words that showed though not overtly that I was thinking of Israel's practices against the Palestinians.
I guess I couldnt proceed in history because in whatever period I am studying a defacto state is a defacto state.
