When you said:
"i suppose the logic is if we don't do it the Nazis will come to power again and gas us again ... except they never did - we just made that story up to boost morale - but then our kids ended up believing it and now we can't tell them it's BS because it will look bad..."
Are you saying the Holocaust didn't actually happen? Or that the Nazis didn't actually gas the Jews? Or that the Nazis didn't come to power?