My first exchange with teachers about anything Nazi related wasn’t about the Holocaust, but rather about Mien Kampf specifically. Without anyone else in my life interested in the topic I had just enough interest to go buy the book myself and read it in a week. I was talking to my main teacher (a good man) and my principle, a short (I’d find out years later jewish) woman, after school. I can’t remember exactly what brought it up but they had made some statement on Hitler planning for decades to kill all the Jews and bragging about it mien Kampf. And without thinking I simply told them they were wrong, and told them in pretty good detail (as it was quite fresh) what he did actually say. I remember the whole exchange suddenly becoming so weird because I only read the book because I thought it was interesting only a small handful of major historical leaders pend their own books, and had no particular affection for Hitler. But what I remember was how truly obligated they both seemed to take their positions. Even at the time I wasn’t claiming I was right, but simply what was actually written, and being aware of it there in the conversation that they seemed to argue purely out of fear of being open minded, and how ridiculous that looked. And it only made me want to look into it more.