I read Emily Greenhouse’s article about teaching European children about the Holocaust in this Friday’s Argus (“Emdashes: Teach your children well,” Feb. 29, vol. CXLIII, no. 33) with great interest and found it quite thought provoking. Unfortunately, I was appalled to come to the end of the piece and find the sentence “For all of the mistakes that the Germans have made in the past, the comic book might be a better, more responsibly accessible teaching method than that suggested by Sarkozy.” The Nazi stereotype is something that Germans are desperately trying to separate themselves from, seemingly in vain. The implication that “oh, I guess they’re doing something okay THIS time,” that doing something appropriate is somehow a turning point is hurtful. What about Germany’s widespread environmentalism? Their anti-Nazi movements? Brecht? Grass? Albrecht Dürer? Roentgen? Ernst Haeckel? Marlene Dietrich? Herzog? NENA? Germany has a lot of admirable history before AND after the Nazi Era. Maybe I’m overreacting, but the last thing in the world I would want is for the German exchange and international students on campus to think that we thought of them in a negative light.