Third-graders allegedly forced to re-enact Holocaust, with student playing Hitler, simulated shootings, dying in gas chamber, digging of mass graves

Third-graders in a public elementary school in Washington, D.C., allegedly were forced to re-enact the Holocaust, with a student playing murderous dictator Adolf Hitler, simulated shootings, a gas chamber death, and students digging their own mass graves, WTTG-TV reported.

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The principal of Watkins Elementary School sent a letter to parents explaining he had received reports about the re-enactment having taken place during a library lesson Friday, the station said, and that it was "alleged that the staff member leading the lesson also made anti-Semitic statements."
D.C. Public Schools is investigating, WTTG reported.

The station spoke to a mother of one of those students under the condition of anonymity to protect her child.