I watched the NHK program, dark side mystery "The Devil Was There! The World Shocking Exorcist Trial? Who Killed the Girl? ～".

A commentator on that program talked about Auschwitz.

This reminded me of something.

When I was in elementary school, a teacher was about to talk about one of the Nazi policies, the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" She said to me,

'Hmmm, I think Ebata-kun can explain this better than I can. Can you do it？'

At this time, I was in the fourth grade.

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I was more familiar with this kind of thing.

I explained the scale of the number of people killed by giving the population numbers of our city at the time. For an elementary school student, I think I did an excellent job of explaining it.

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However,

An elementary school student familiar with the history of the world's (including Japan's) genocide -- This must have been a 'disgusting elementary school student,' not only from a child's point of view but also from an adult's point of view.

I think back to my teenage years and recall that it may have been inevitable that I have few memories of "cheerful" or "fun" times.