The book burning is political correctness to the extreme. Two Supreme Court decisions illustrate American legal principles. This aspect is sacrificed in favor of the political repression features discussed at length in most courses. Also, many curriculum guides on the Holocaust go deeply into Christian antisemitism marking it as the engine that drove anti-Jewish persecution. But it was really European racist assumptions, the Aryan myth and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion that was the warrant for genocide.
Nations ignore human rights abuses to participate.
The material points to the dilemma faced by Olympic officials and athletes regarding participation. A composite news report relates Jesse Owens' victories and Hitler's chagrin at the Black athlete's victory. This lesson coupled with the Rhineland Mulattos, material tries to relate the Nazi era to Afro-American interests. The readings that follow are part of most Holocaust curricula - Nuremberg race laws, Kristallnacht, ghettoization and concentration camp internment. However, the Supreme Court cases attached show what American political liberties were violated.