Disappointed in handling of Nazi flag incident

Dear Editor:
As a former elementary school teacher who has a passion for American history and taught it when I had 5th graders, I have a great concern for what happened at the Aurora High School last week.
I am disappointed in the apparent lack of knowledge of the students who seemed to proudly display the Nazi flag in a school locker room. It appears to me that this terror event is being “swept under the rug” by the school and police department where Chief Graham said in last week’s paper that “there is nothing criminal for us to investigate.” So what happens with another hate crime?
Having some suspensions seems to be just a slap on the wrist and I assume that those involved are enjoying their time off from the classroom.
All students, in my opinion, should be properly educated about causes of unrest in this country’s history as well as factors that brought on the wars in Europe that affected the entire world. We must learn from the past so as to avoid making similar mistakes in the future.
In WW 2 Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, was obsessed with domination and took rights away from the German people. He envisioned a master race, and exterminated almost six million Jewish people because they were not in his plan.
The Holocaust, which by definition is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale” was planned to rid the world of the Jewish people, rounding them up from their homes, separating families, and be interned in six concentration camps. The people were expected to do hard labor with scant food rations, and when they could no longer be productive were killed in gas chambers, their bodies stacked like wood on the grounds and burned in crematoriums at each camp.
In my opinion, there should be a special unit on the Holocaust in history classes and all students, if they aren’t already, should be required to take these history classes. 
In my opinion, those students demonstrating this negative attention getting behavior need to have hard consequences for their actions. Also, they should get some counseling, some community service outside of the school day, see videos of this tragic event in our world’s history and really understand why it happened.
Even though there are fewer and fewer survivors left, I believe a presentation from a survivor for all the students and their parents, also open to the community, should be held at the school. Maybe there are also US vets in the area who were actively involved with the liberation of those camps that could be involved.
Bonnie J. Campbell,
Aurora