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In the organizer's words:

The school classic in a modern guise: moving and highly topical

"So you think a dictatorship is no longer possible in Germany?" - "Absolutely not! We're far too enlightened for that."

A history teacher is working on the topic of fascism. The pupils don't understand why the German majority watched the crimes of the National Socialists in silence and without doing anything. She starts a simple experiment by uniting the class with exercises in discipline and hierarchical behavior, creating a sense of community in the group through symbols and slogans. The seductiveness of fascist ideas gains the upper hand, first playfully, then increasingly radically. The experiment is slipping away.

Today, the world is enlightened and safe. Or is it? Populism, xenophobia, autocracies, Meloni, Putin and movements such as the Identitarians or the Rassemblement National are stirring up fear throughout Europe under the guise of great threats and dangers, using familiar codes in new words.
The real-life experiment "The third Wave" by Californian high school teacher Ron Jones, which became school reading in 1981 as the globally successful novel "The Wave" by Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser), raises old questions anew under the current political circumstances: What does it give one group to feel superior to another? When does cohesion within a group turn into the exclusion of others? Who fights for what and who watches? Does it ultimately only take a sufficient number of silent spectators to endanger democracy?

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