“Is it worth it? Yes, but it’s also dangerous”: This extraordinary experience left its mark throughout high school and inspired several movies as well as a Netflix series.

“How and Why Did the German People Allow the Holocaust?”. One of the courses of American history professor Ron Jones begins with this question. It’s April 1967 at Kuberly High School in Palo Alto, California. This man forces his students to study the Third Reich and Hitler’s rise to power.

To answer it, he decides to forget about theory and move on to practice, asking his students to do some exercises with the hidden goal of converting them to ideology. The latter play the game without imagining the proportions it will take…

It’s an experience we’ll talk about in more detail in a new podcast episode “This is a true story”, I must tell you something. He especially inspired screenwriters and writers all over the world.

But his most famous adaptation is probably the German film The Wave (Die Welle), released in 2018. The latter is now used by teachers to teach students and show how easy it is to fall into it. totalitarianism.

In 2019, Netflix picked up the series We, The Wave, which allows a whole new generation of viewers to discover the story of Ron Jones. The latter, traumatized by the forbidden experience, revealed years later: “Is it worth it? Yes, but it is also dangerous. ”

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