I teach High-school sophomores in Los Angeles. My fiancee is a young native German, she's a very pretty, smart girl and we're very in love. Her grandparents were part of the Nazi party and her grandfather was an SS Officer. He's 95 and still healthy and alert. Anyway, I just went with my fiancee to her home city in Germany to visit for 2 months and met her family and grandfather... I have to say I couldn't help but kinda like him, although I never thought I would at first, he was a pleasant old man who really seemed to love his family and grandchildren. My fiancee was always very close to him. I wish I could have asked him more questions when I was there last, but he was very private about several things although was open to talking about some things. Anyway, he and her grandmother are planning to come visit us in the U.S. for a couple weeks this winter and I was thinking of asking him if he would visit my classroom and talk to my students about his experience during the war and the Hitler years in general from a German perspective, since I think it would give a unique perspective that I've never had the opportunity to give my students before. We've had Jewish Holocaust survivors come visit before but never a German yet. Do you think this would be a good idea that would go over well with my students?
yes I put this in another section too but I wanted to see opinions from parents, etc..
yes I put this in another section too but I wanted to see opinions from parents, etc..