RICHARD GERE STOOD IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP AND DESCRIBED MY COUNTRY. IT WAS BONE CHILLING.

"This dictatorship of the monsters, how quickly it happens"

I taught the rise-of-the-Reich unit to Texas juniors for 15 years. I never thought a movie star would hand my own lesson back to me from a stage in Oslo.

I taught history to juniors for 15 years before I traded the whiteboard for the carpool line, and the hardest week of every single year was the one where I tried to explain how Germany happened.

The kids…