BERLIN, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The German region of Bavaria will soon require all children to visit Nazi concentration camps as part of their education, regional officials say.
Top Bavarian ministers said the call for concentration camp visits by all area children is part of a movement to education young people about the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party during World War II, The Times of London said Thursday.
The demand comes in the wake of an attack on a senior police official by an individual described as a neo-Nazi spouting extreme right-wing ideas.
"We have to take a stand against this far-right octopus, this tentacled monster," Bavarian Prime Minister Host Seehofer said, referring to such apparent right-wing incidents.
"Our aim must be to bring up kids so that they can resist any attempt by the far right to lead them astray," Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann offered.
The visits to the war sites, which once housed prisoners of different ethnicities facing uncertain futures, will be woven into the region's educational curriculum and the informative visits could soon involve all German children, The Times reported.
