Born a Crime

taught more about World War II
than the typical black kids in the
townships were, but only in a basic
way. We weren’t taught to think
critically about Hitler and anti-
Semitism and the Holocaust. We
weren’t taught, for instance, that
the architects of apartheid were big
fans of Hitler, that the racist
policies they put in place were
inspired, in part, by the racist
policies of the Third Reich. We
weren’t taught how to think about
how Hitler related to the world we
lived in. We weren’t being taught to
think, period. All we were taught
was that in 1939 Hitler invaded