Nothing. We learned nothing in school about your state.
Next to nothing … the only time we learned something about Israel was when visiting the jüdische museum
I did an 50min PowerPoint presentation about Isreals Independence and Water Conflict 🙂
Nothing in history, because its founding wasn’t so long ago that is was considered “history” yet, i.e. at the time longer ago than some 50 or 60 years. We pretty much stopped with history shortly after the nazi reign and start of reconstruction.
Which would make it fall under “politics”, and for that…it guess it just wasn’t interesting enough compared to all the other stuff happening around the world. Though it may depend on what education track you were on.
I remember that we discussed the modern state of Israel in catholic religious education when we covered judaism. One guy had a presentation about the Arab-Israeli wars but we were still very young (11 or 12 maybe) so I think most pupils didn’t really understand much.
And if I recall correctly we also discussed Israel in geography lessons in the context of something about water, but it was just very briefly.
And unlike others here, we did cover the post war era in history lessons but the focus was of course on the German partition and reunification and the cold war in general. I think the 1972 Munich hostage crisis was briefly mentioned. And our teacher sometimes liked to deviate from the official curriculum and told us about the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires and the subsequent trial in Israel. He suggest to watch the film about it but unfortunately I’ve never watched it until today.
Well I kinda know about the founding of Israel and the following conflicts in the region. But id say most of my knowledge of Israel is from news coverage or documentations.
A few lessons about: early zionism. The british/french betrayal of the arabs (sykes picot). The foundation and following illegal annexations and occupations (happening to this day). Six day war and jom kippur war. But then again I was in a history and social studies Leistungskurs (a more in depth class than the basic level for abitur)
First of all, there are 16 different education systems in Germany, one in every state. And there of course you also have different school types that again teach different subjects in different lengths, complexity and focus. I’ll tell about how the situation is in the Realschule in Bayern at the moment, according to the newest curriculum.
Actually it doesn’t mention Israel by name, but instead the middle eastern conflict. It’s part of a section entitled “Challenges and chances of present global developments”, which just mentions “Development of the middle east conflict” as a matter to be discussed. Other topics of this section are include foreign policy after 1990 (in particular China, US and Russia), international organisations and new and current global conflicts. As one competence, and I’m including this because it is a beautiful sentence I think: “In doing so, they grasp e.g. that peaceful coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions represents a major challenge for everyone involved.” Other competences are eg. about terrorism, singular events (“eg. 9/11”), the reasons for conflicts and international organisation. For the whole section there are planned 11 lessons (1 lesson = 45 minutes)
Personally, as far as I remember, we did talk about Israel or the middle east conflict briefly for 2 or 3 lessons. We started with the foundation of Israel after WW2, the wars and conflicts with the Palestianians and other Arab states, aswell as the current situation of the conflict and attempts at peace.
You can actually [view the site yourself](https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/fachlehrplan/realschule/10/geschichte), if you’re interested and want to see the whole thing and not just my summary (it’s in German though, so, maybe you should use a translator). Maybe it helps more. Note that this is the new curriculum and teaching with it (in grade 10 atleast) will start this September. So it’s pretty reflective of the current state I’d say. But remember: 16 different education systems, each with usually 3 different school types, eachc again with their own curriculum.
Very rarely. The only part where the topic was spoken about in my school was in a politics class, where one guy held a presentation about the Israel-Palestine conflict. It ended with the general consense: it’s complicated.
I believe there are basically two reasons for not speaking about the state of Israel in school:
first, even though zionism and judaism are not the same thing, many people mix them together. And since our history is tragically connected with judaism, with us as the historic perpetrators, it gives just a bad taste trying formulate an opinion about jews in a political context in school.
Second, we have a rather large muslim minority which are mostly no big fans of Israel. To not trigger to many conflicts in school, which can also become very personal and sometimes physical, this topic is just left out as a whole.
It’s a bit different on a societal level, where this topic is spoken about, even though always with some caution.
Why would the German educational system introduce sensitive politics to children? Especially when it is concerning a false, apartheid state?
Not part of the Curriculum. We talked about it anyway, and there was some discussion (remember: We were 16) about how israel is not an apartheid regime, the justification of jerusalem being controlled by the IDF and human rights violations in gaza.
Today I would look more balanced on both sides, but this conflict has to end. Soon!
We had the whole conflict in social studies. It was more of a history lesson on how it came to be, what the conflicts are, who committed which crimes against humanity, all that.
In history class, we learned about the foundation of the new Israelian state after WW2 and the conflicts that arose from placing a non-arabic, non-secular state in the middle of the Arabic-Muslim world.
In ethics class we also talked about the importance of Jerusalem for the Jewish populace, and how and why Israel is so determined to get it fully under Israelian control.
Iam from Sachsen-Anhalt and had my exams last year. In history we talked about the Wars u fought but not how ur country was founded or smth, so yeah we only scratched the surface of Israeli history.
School from 2000-2009. 3-4 years Weimar Republic and Third Reich/WW2. Anything Post WW2 I can’t remember learning anything in School.
Maybe a little bit about the reunification, but that could be just me watching documentaries together with my father.
We learn not to criticise Israel or Judaism. If so, they will call you a nazi
wow this post really got attention so I think I will make a video about this post, could be interesting
We learned a little bit about the state of Israel. The main focus was the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Other than that the others are right. Not much was taught. All i know about Israel comes from own Research, visits to museums etc.
Please be aware of one important thing when asking questions like that:
We have sixteen different states with different schooling systems, in each of them several different “types” of schools for kids of the same age. Even more so a wide range of ages that people will have when they answer your questions.
So take any answer, including mine, with huge grains of salt. There is not one school book for history in Germany. There are sixteen times two or even three, so around 40 different school books for history a random 15 year old could get **today** nevermind those who got to school ten, twenty, thirty years ago. So this is extremely complicated and no answer will be representative.
No. Maybe in the Religion Education.
you should’ve said an occupying entity not a state.
In school history ends with the second world war. Israel, Vietnam, Korea, Cyprus, … All this never happened.
Edit: My experience from some decades ago.
I believe the most I’ve learned in school about modern day (post ww2) Israel was neither in history classes nor politics classes but protestant (Evangelischer) religion classes, because learning about other religions is a part of the curriculum. Judaism is an important world religion and when you’re talking about modern judaism, it’s easy to see how you end up talking about Israel, especially since you have already talked so much about Israel in biblical times in religion class.
The main topics I remember were about the orthodox and secular part of the population, a short documentary about everyday life of a family with children in Tel Aviv and a biographical short story of a man who grew up in a Kibutz.
Conflicts in the region were mostly skipped over. I learned about that from the news on TV. But of course Jerusalem being important to muslims as well was mentioned.
– Sykes Picot Agreement
– Balfour Declaration
– Foundation in 1948
– Six Day war and Jom Kippur war
– two state solution and expansion into Palestinian territory
– Intifadas
– settlement policy
It’s not taught that broadly and rather short
I actually gave a presentation to my class about the founding of the state of Israel, specifically, and we were explained the more general historical background (where did the Jewish settlers come from and why, who was already living there, whatever the British did there, some promises the British made, the stance of various superpowers to a Jewish state, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, etc.), brief history of Palestine at that time and a summary of numerous wars.
So I guess I know more about the history of Israel than most people here, but I can assure you we learned almost nothing about contemporary Israel (unless it has historic roots).
The most important thing i think is that there is simply not enogh time to talk about it.
Also i think the Israeli state is a very very hot topic in germany.
I went to high school 2004-2011 in Berlin (for reference).
We learned how the state was re-formed after an incredibly short war. We discussed who owns the land (with no side being “the right one”). We learned how Jerusalem is important for all 3 big monotheistic religions today.
I will receive my Abitur in a bit more than a month.
In history, we didn’t cover Israel at all. The world wars were covered a lot. I did not chose history as one of my classes, so others might have gotten more education on the subject, especially so those with history LK (focus on history in thr last years of regular education).
However your question is not specific to the topic of history classes. I had a class called Sozialkunde (=Social and political topics) in which we talked about the middle east and the Syrian war a lot. Israel also played a role in that. Sadly this class war really really boring in my case, but the concept of “let’s analyses the role of the Syrian neighbor states” is a pretty good idea.
I don’t remember anything. We learnt about Judaism in religion class, but not about modern Judaism or Zionism/Israel. In history class we talked about what changed after World War II, but with a strong focus on Germany and Europe. So the former British colonies and the foundation of Israel were left out. In “politics and economy” we did not learn about Israel or the Middle East conflict.
I just checked the curriculum and and apparently it’s optional today. In 12th grade history class the teachers can choose the topic “The Middle East conflict as a global political hotspot”:
>**Basic level**
>
>historical causes of the Middle East conflict (Zionism, Jewish immigration and British Mandate over Palestine, Arab nationalism and Middle East in the interwar period)
>
>the struggle for Palestine and the emergence of Israel (confrontation between Jews and Arabs and with the Mandate power in Palestine after 1945, the UN partition decision, the founding of Israel and the first Middle East war)
>
>the Middle East in the context of world political confrontations (e.g. Suez crisis, the Six-Day War, peace efforts, role of the USA and the USSR)
>
>**Advanced level**
>
>Germany, Israel and the Middle East conflict: Does Germany bear a special responsibility? responsibility?
That seems to be the only topic on Israel
Bavarian here, finished school in 2019: we learned quite about Israel mainly how it came to be (you know Jews resettle the area and even more so after WW2, 6 days war, etc) and a bit about its place in geopolitics today.
Founding of Israel and the conflict before and after.
Interesting how many people here haven’t learned anything about it.
It has been a while but from what I remember:
* In history: Quick overview over the history, nothing in depth.
* In geography: Quick overview over the economy.
* In social studies: Israel-Palestine conflict.
* In religious education: Religious festivals and traditions. As part of the history of Judaism a look at its history and the current state. Also, the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Graduation from Gymnasium (A-Levels) in 2018. Only heard about the middle east from 11th grade upwards, so my guess is most students in GE never hear about it. It’s taught very neutral and it’s more about dates amd facts than about moral valuation.
Apart from some stuff about ancient Jerusalem, nothing at all.
Nothing.
Beside the EU and USA there is almost no country specific teaching.
Not much, to be honest. And given Germany’s history, it’s very frowned upon to criticise Israel – no matter how abhorrent the treatment is that Palestinians have to face.
When we talk about Israel, it’s mostly about how it is the only “civil country” in the Middle East. Israel is always portrayed in a positive light.
I needed to learn the flag in primary school.
But apart from that I heard of Israel only in the news or in American movies about terrorism.
We learned loads about the holocaust and nothing about Jews.
Finished 13th grade in 2009 though and I think many social studies classes focus a bit on Israel at some point.
We learned about Israel in religion class. Like biblical history as well as newer history with Britain and Germany and the Palestine war. Also we had to learn each of the Jewish holidays by heart and had to recite the things you do (or do not) on each holiday. Some Political details were covered in GRW, not much tho.
Never talked about economy in the middle east other than „it’s bad“.
Since I went to a private school that was mostly financed by the Catholic Church, our teachers did not have to stick to the curriculum until year 11 which was very chill. But that way we would spend more time on things that did not get repeated in the Oberstufe like Napoleon who we discussed for almost 7 months.
I will say most Germans will hear no criticism of Israel. To call out Israel’s apartheid system in a Germany related subreddit is to get downvoted heavily. To say that Israel has turned from haven for the oppressed to oppressors themselves is not something accepted as a legitimate criticism, but usually as an anti-Semitic lie.
Which is unfortunate. Israel needs pressure from abroad in order to change.
My school years were some time ago, so I don’t know if I remember everything correctly, but history (the only subject were I think we would have talked about Israel) started with Old Egypt, the struggle between the Greek states Athens an Sparta, Romans and Germanic people (where we also had the situation in the occupied Palestine), briefly the migration period, the Holy Roman Empire (and also the crusades), then the French revolution, the fight against Napoleon and the German Revolution, greater German solution or smaller German solution, Prussia against Austria, Bismarck, the German Empire, the First World War, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime and anti-Semitism, the Second World War, the post-war years, the Cold War, the begin of the European Union and the reunification.
So the main topics were pretty Euro-/German-centristic. I think we had the Six-Days-War or the Yom-Kippur-War somewhere mixed in, but that is all I can remember.
We learned about your state in school. At least the beginning and part of the recent conflict was mentioned but only for an hour or two
We spent quite some time on it, although I have to say I live in Rhineland-Palatinate, where we get to pick “majors”, so to speak. One of my majors was social studies, so I’m not sure wether you would cover the topic in as much depth as we did if you didn’t pick that.
I also thought our coverage was fairly balanced, with a general consensus of “it’s complicated” and no clear bias in either direction, though I may misremember and mix in what I know now.
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Nothing. We learned nothing in school about your state.
Next to nothing … the only time we learned something about Israel was when visiting the jüdische museum
I did an 50min PowerPoint presentation about Isreals Independence and Water Conflict 🙂
Nothing in history, because its founding wasn’t so long ago that is was considered “history” yet, i.e. at the time longer ago than some 50 or 60 years. We pretty much stopped with history shortly after the nazi reign and start of reconstruction.
Which would make it fall under “politics”, and for that…it guess it just wasn’t interesting enough compared to all the other stuff happening around the world. Though it may depend on what education track you were on.
I remember that we discussed the modern state of Israel in catholic religious education when we covered judaism. One guy had a presentation about the Arab-Israeli wars but we were still very young (11 or 12 maybe) so I think most pupils didn’t really understand much.
And if I recall correctly we also discussed Israel in geography lessons in the context of something about water, but it was just very briefly.
And unlike others here, we did cover the post war era in history lessons but the focus was of course on the German partition and reunification and the cold war in general. I think the 1972 Munich hostage crisis was briefly mentioned. And our teacher sometimes liked to deviate from the official curriculum and told us about the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires and the subsequent trial in Israel. He suggest to watch the film about it but unfortunately I’ve never watched it until today.
Well I kinda know about the founding of Israel and the following conflicts in the region. But id say most of my knowledge of Israel is from news coverage or documentations.
A few lessons about: early zionism. The british/french betrayal of the arabs (sykes picot). The foundation and following illegal annexations and occupations (happening to this day). Six day war and jom kippur war. But then again I was in a history and social studies Leistungskurs (a more in depth class than the basic level for abitur)
First of all, there are 16 different education systems in Germany, one in every state. And there of course you also have different school types that again teach different subjects in different lengths, complexity and focus. I’ll tell about how the situation is in the Realschule in Bayern at the moment, according to the newest curriculum.
Actually it doesn’t mention Israel by name, but instead the middle eastern conflict. It’s part of a section entitled “Challenges and chances of present global developments”, which just mentions “Development of the middle east conflict” as a matter to be discussed. Other topics of this section are include foreign policy after 1990 (in particular China, US and Russia), international organisations and new and current global conflicts. As one competence, and I’m including this because it is a beautiful sentence I think: “In doing so, they grasp e.g. that peaceful coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions represents a major challenge for everyone involved.” Other competences are eg. about terrorism, singular events (“eg. 9/11”), the reasons for conflicts and international organisation. For the whole section there are planned 11 lessons (1 lesson = 45 minutes)
Personally, as far as I remember, we did talk about Israel or the middle east conflict briefly for 2 or 3 lessons. We started with the foundation of Israel after WW2, the wars and conflicts with the Palestianians and other Arab states, aswell as the current situation of the conflict and attempts at peace.
You can actually [view the site yourself](https://www.lehrplanplus.bayern.de/fachlehrplan/realschule/10/geschichte), if you’re interested and want to see the whole thing and not just my summary (it’s in German though, so, maybe you should use a translator). Maybe it helps more. Note that this is the new curriculum and teaching with it (in grade 10 atleast) will start this September. So it’s pretty reflective of the current state I’d say. But remember: 16 different education systems, each with usually 3 different school types, eachc again with their own curriculum.
Very rarely. The only part where the topic was spoken about in my school was in a politics class, where one guy held a presentation about the Israel-Palestine conflict. It ended with the general consense: it’s complicated.
I believe there are basically two reasons for not speaking about the state of Israel in school:
first, even though zionism and judaism are not the same thing, many people mix them together. And since our history is tragically connected with judaism, with us as the historic perpetrators, it gives just a bad taste trying formulate an opinion about jews in a political context in school.
Second, we have a rather large muslim minority which are mostly no big fans of Israel. To not trigger to many conflicts in school, which can also become very personal and sometimes physical, this topic is just left out as a whole.
It’s a bit different on a societal level, where this topic is spoken about, even though always with some caution.
Why would the German educational system introduce sensitive politics to children? Especially when it is concerning a false, apartheid state?
Not part of the Curriculum. We talked about it anyway, and there was some discussion (remember: We were 16) about how israel is not an apartheid regime, the justification of jerusalem being controlled by the IDF and human rights violations in gaza.
Today I would look more balanced on both sides, but this conflict has to end. Soon!
We had the whole conflict in social studies. It was more of a history lesson on how it came to be, what the conflicts are, who committed which crimes against humanity, all that.
In history class, we learned about the foundation of the new Israelian state after WW2 and the conflicts that arose from placing a non-arabic, non-secular state in the middle of the Arabic-Muslim world.
In ethics class we also talked about the importance of Jerusalem for the Jewish populace, and how and why Israel is so determined to get it fully under Israelian control.
Iam from Sachsen-Anhalt and had my exams last year. In history we talked about the Wars u fought but not how ur country was founded or smth, so yeah we only scratched the surface of Israeli history.
School from 2000-2009. 3-4 years Weimar Republic and Third Reich/WW2. Anything Post WW2 I can’t remember learning anything in School.
Maybe a little bit about the reunification, but that could be just me watching documentaries together with my father.
We learn not to criticise Israel or Judaism. If so, they will call you a nazi
wow this post really got attention so I think I will make a video about this post, could be interesting
We learned a little bit about the state of Israel. The main focus was the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Other than that the others are right. Not much was taught. All i know about Israel comes from own Research, visits to museums etc.
Please be aware of one important thing when asking questions like that:
We have sixteen different states with different schooling systems, in each of them several different “types” of schools for kids of the same age. Even more so a wide range of ages that people will have when they answer your questions.
So take any answer, including mine, with huge grains of salt. There is not one school book for history in Germany. There are sixteen times two or even three, so around 40 different school books for history a random 15 year old could get **today** nevermind those who got to school ten, twenty, thirty years ago. So this is extremely complicated and no answer will be representative.
No. Maybe in the Religion Education.
you should’ve said an occupying entity not a state.
In school history ends with the second world war. Israel, Vietnam, Korea, Cyprus, … All this never happened.
Edit: My experience from some decades ago.
I believe the most I’ve learned in school about modern day (post ww2) Israel was neither in history classes nor politics classes but protestant (Evangelischer) religion classes, because learning about other religions is a part of the curriculum. Judaism is an important world religion and when you’re talking about modern judaism, it’s easy to see how you end up talking about Israel, especially since you have already talked so much about Israel in biblical times in religion class.
The main topics I remember were about the orthodox and secular part of the population, a short documentary about everyday life of a family with children in Tel Aviv and a biographical short story of a man who grew up in a Kibutz.
Conflicts in the region were mostly skipped over. I learned about that from the news on TV. But of course Jerusalem being important to muslims as well was mentioned.
– Sykes Picot Agreement
– Balfour Declaration
– Foundation in 1948
– Six Day war and Jom Kippur war
– two state solution and expansion into Palestinian territory
– Intifadas
– settlement policy
It’s not taught that broadly and rather short
I actually gave a presentation to my class about the founding of the state of Israel, specifically, and we were explained the more general historical background (where did the Jewish settlers come from and why, who was already living there, whatever the British did there, some promises the British made, the stance of various superpowers to a Jewish state, Nazis, Nazis, Nazis, etc.), brief history of Palestine at that time and a summary of numerous wars.
So I guess I know more about the history of Israel than most people here, but I can assure you we learned almost nothing about contemporary Israel (unless it has historic roots).
The most important thing i think is that there is simply not enogh time to talk about it.
Also i think the Israeli state is a very very hot topic in germany.
I went to high school 2004-2011 in Berlin (for reference).
We learned how the state was re-formed after an incredibly short war. We discussed who owns the land (with no side being “the right one”). We learned how Jerusalem is important for all 3 big monotheistic religions today.
I will receive my Abitur in a bit more than a month.
In history, we didn’t cover Israel at all. The world wars were covered a lot. I did not chose history as one of my classes, so others might have gotten more education on the subject, especially so those with history LK (focus on history in thr last years of regular education).
However your question is not specific to the topic of history classes. I had a class called Sozialkunde (=Social and political topics) in which we talked about the middle east and the Syrian war a lot. Israel also played a role in that. Sadly this class war really really boring in my case, but the concept of “let’s analyses the role of the Syrian neighbor states” is a pretty good idea.
I don’t remember anything. We learnt about Judaism in religion class, but not about modern Judaism or Zionism/Israel. In history class we talked about what changed after World War II, but with a strong focus on Germany and Europe. So the former British colonies and the foundation of Israel were left out. In “politics and economy” we did not learn about Israel or the Middle East conflict.
I just checked the curriculum and and apparently it’s optional today. In 12th grade history class the teachers can choose the topic “The Middle East conflict as a global political hotspot”:
>**Basic level**
>
>historical causes of the Middle East conflict (Zionism, Jewish immigration and British Mandate over Palestine, Arab nationalism and Middle East in the interwar period)
>
>the struggle for Palestine and the emergence of Israel (confrontation between Jews and Arabs and with the Mandate power in Palestine after 1945, the UN partition decision, the founding of Israel and the first Middle East war)
>
>the Middle East in the context of world political confrontations (e.g. Suez crisis, the Six-Day War, peace efforts, role of the USA and the USSR)
>
>**Advanced level**
>
>Germany, Israel and the Middle East conflict: Does Germany bear a special responsibility? responsibility?
That seems to be the only topic on Israel
Bavarian here, finished school in 2019: we learned quite about Israel mainly how it came to be (you know Jews resettle the area and even more so after WW2, 6 days war, etc) and a bit about its place in geopolitics today.
Founding of Israel and the conflict before and after.
Interesting how many people here haven’t learned anything about it.
It has been a while but from what I remember:
* In history: Quick overview over the history, nothing in depth.
* In geography: Quick overview over the economy.
* In social studies: Israel-Palestine conflict.
* In religious education: Religious festivals and traditions. As part of the history of Judaism a look at its history and the current state. Also, the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Graduation from Gymnasium (A-Levels) in 2018. Only heard about the middle east from 11th grade upwards, so my guess is most students in GE never hear about it. It’s taught very neutral and it’s more about dates amd facts than about moral valuation.
Apart from some stuff about ancient Jerusalem, nothing at all.
They obviously won’t teach about [Aliyah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah) or [1948 Palestinian exodus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus), so the answer is nothing…
Nothing.
Beside the EU and USA there is almost no country specific teaching.
Not much, to be honest. And given Germany’s history, it’s very frowned upon to criticise Israel – no matter how abhorrent the treatment is that Palestinians have to face.
When we talk about Israel, it’s mostly about how it is the only “civil country” in the Middle East. Israel is always portrayed in a positive light.
I needed to learn the flag in primary school.
But apart from that I heard of Israel only in the news or in American movies about terrorism.
We learned loads about the holocaust and nothing about Jews.
Finished 13th grade in 2009 though and I think many social studies classes focus a bit on Israel at some point.
We learned about Israel in religion class. Like biblical history as well as newer history with Britain and Germany and the Palestine war. Also we had to learn each of the Jewish holidays by heart and had to recite the things you do (or do not) on each holiday. Some Political details were covered in GRW, not much tho.
Never talked about economy in the middle east other than „it’s bad“.
Since I went to a private school that was mostly financed by the Catholic Church, our teachers did not have to stick to the curriculum until year 11 which was very chill. But that way we would spend more time on things that did not get repeated in the Oberstufe like Napoleon who we discussed for almost 7 months.
I will say most Germans will hear no criticism of Israel. To call out Israel’s apartheid system in a Germany related subreddit is to get downvoted heavily. To say that Israel has turned from haven for the oppressed to oppressors themselves is not something accepted as a legitimate criticism, but usually as an anti-Semitic lie.
Which is unfortunate. Israel needs pressure from abroad in order to change.
My school years were some time ago, so I don’t know if I remember everything correctly, but history (the only subject were I think we would have talked about Israel) started with Old Egypt, the struggle between the Greek states Athens an Sparta, Romans and Germanic people (where we also had the situation in the occupied Palestine), briefly the migration period, the Holy Roman Empire (and also the crusades), then the French revolution, the fight against Napoleon and the German Revolution, greater German solution or smaller German solution, Prussia against Austria, Bismarck, the German Empire, the First World War, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime and anti-Semitism, the Second World War, the post-war years, the Cold War, the begin of the European Union and the reunification.
So the main topics were pretty Euro-/German-centristic. I think we had the Six-Days-War or the Yom-Kippur-War somewhere mixed in, but that is all I can remember.
We learned about your state in school. At least the beginning and part of the recent conflict was mentioned but only for an hour or two
everyone watch this: https://youtu.be/c9eFZiBFd9w
We spent quite some time on it, although I have to say I live in Rhineland-Palatinate, where we get to pick “majors”, so to speak. One of my majors was social studies, so I’m not sure wether you would cover the topic in as much depth as we did if you didn’t pick that.
I also thought our coverage was fairly balanced, with a general consensus of “it’s complicated” and no clear bias in either direction, though I may misremember and mix in what I know now.