I have always loved to learn. I like to learn about anything and everything. That’s why I love college so much.

At college, there is a huge number of courses, all for the benefit of learning.

While at Iowa State, I have taken a variety of classes in order to expand my horizons. Like most science-ignorant students, my meteorology class filled my science requirement, but I learned more about the weather.

When I took African American literature, I was introduced to a new style of writing and authors I had never read before. This fall, tap dancing class will give me the opportunity to learn some dancing moves.

A university experience is about giving students a well-rounded education.

And this education shows us both the good and bad of society. Or at least that’s what I’ve always thought.

But at a university in Georgia, students are not getting that kind of complete education.

Kennesaw State University officials have decided to drop a course titled “The Culture of Nazi Germany” for the fall semester.

Ed Rugg, chief academic officer for the university, said KSU has been sued at least five times in the past decade by former professors claiming anti-Semitism. The course was created by Sabine Smith, assistance professor of German and native of Germany.

Rugg also canceled the course for fear that the word “Nazi” could be misinterpreted and scare off potential donors.

This university needs to re-examine its priorities.

Classes about Germany and Nazis are a part of world history and need to be taught at every university.

The Holocaust was a nightmare for humankind, but without studying the problems of the past, how can we focus on the future?

Iowa State University, like most universities, has a class similar to the one canceled at KSU.

“The Holocaust in Text, Image, and Memory” is a course offered each spring through the German department. According to the ISU Catalog, the course examines the origins and expressions of anti-Semitism, the political events and structures of the Holocaust, the reality of ghettos and concentration camps and resistance to the Nazis.

Without these types of classes, who will teach students about Nazi Germany?

Students need to know how the Nazis prohibited Jews from owning land and being newspaper editors.

We need to understand how Hitler went from being an average citizen to Germany’s dictator.

We need to know why the Nazis ordered the Jews to wear yellow stars and how the German citizens accepted this cruel treatment.

Just as it’s important for students to learn about the end of slavery and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the evil parts of history are important.

History is supposed to be about the truth. It’s not a fairy tale. It’s not folklore. All of history needs to be told, the good and the bad.

Without teaching students about Nazi Germany, we are denying the fact the Holocaust ever happened. We are forgetting about the horrors of World War II. The six million victims of the Holocaust are forever forgotten.

Universities like KSU are teaching history through rose-colored eyeglasses.

Through history we are able to learn from the mistakes of those who came before us.

Without studying the history of Nazi Germany, we are bound to repeat it.

Michelle Kann is a senior in journalism and mass communication from Garnavillo. She is the editor in chief of the Daily.