Not Just For Term Papers Anymore

user submitted pictureAny time someone mentions the number “six million,” we get the creeps. But what could be as innocuous as six million paperclips? That’s how many of the shiny, tiny office supply a Tennesee school collected to demonstrate what that scary number actually looks like. It started as a way to help these white, Christian, American children get a handle on the Holocaust; what ensued was a triumph for Jewish history and the assurance that no one, at least in one small town in the South, will forget what Hitler did. Maybe we’d all prefer to, except that we can’t. Their project is the subject of a documentary soon to be released from Miramax, aptly titled Paperclips.

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