Why is this your priority? Why, in creating a history podcast for kids, do you think the *most* important thing to focus on is the message that some Nazis were good? Why are you both-sides-ing the actual Holocaust?
https://twitter.com/historytime99/status/1448522220540727298
This is clearly something that was put forth as part of the discourse over the past few days - the episode was recorded in February, but you promoted it back to back with your tweet exculpating revisionism. 
From the parents notes on the episode, it is clear that you aren't actually full-throated Holocaust deniers or Nazi apologists. But the way you are teaching this is what *allows* for those things. I understand that it's hard to teach kids about horrific events. I do.
It is nevertheless a *problem* to teach the Holocaust in a way that is 'uplifting and positive'. It's a *problem* to focus on the few Jews who escaped and not the many who did not. It's a *problem* to "take liberties" to make it seem like there's a happy ending.
There was not a happy ending. The vast majority of Nazis did not save Jews. Neither did the vast majority of civilians. When you focus on those rare people who's names are known BECAUSE they were so rare you create the impression that they are the rule instead of the exception.
The Holocaust is a brutal, heartbreaking, ugly topic. It is wrong to try to diminish that in order to make it more palatable. If your kids aren't ready to learn about the brutality and ugliness, then wait to teach it. It's okay to wait until you think they can understand it.
It's NOT okay to try to teach it in a way that masks what it actually was. Doing that is dangerous - to real people, who are really here today, who can point to the places in their family trees where the ending was anything but 'uplifting' and 'positive'.
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