Our responsibility today: historical approaches for police trainees as part of their education program

The educational staff of Flossenbürg memorial offers programs for future police officers . The focus lays on the history of the collaboration according the police and the concentration camp personnel/SS during Nazi time as well as the police in general as part of the Nazi power. The program offers material to discuss the traditional helping role of the police and the participation in crimes  and the violation of human rights during the Nazi time. The goal of the study program is to be aware of decision-making in the professional framework of Police order as well as a reflection on their professional acting relating on human rights as state representatives. The educational staff collaborates with the regional police schools which implement this study-program as part of their three years training to become police officer.

Approach	Holocaust as major framework to analyze Human Rights
Target Audience	Law enforcement officers
Materials	One-day study program, workshop
Geographical scope	Bavaria, Germany
Start of practice	2013
Country of origin	Germany