History is vital, but it should also be honest/accurate as possible.....
//have you ever used that knowledge in every day life....//
probably not "used", but everyone familiar with it will be aware that a fringe party with a nut job leader and an extreme line in rhetoric gained control of a civilised society, because a disillusioned electorate were prepared to listen when times were hard. > mushroom25
Hitler carried out a social revolution in resurrecting a dead economy and so most German people were living a lot better, with his large scale state expenditures the economy was booming, but Hitler's rise was enabled with the support of the highest levels of German capital ie Hindenburg, Papen et al that thought it could control him, and his popularity was enforced by propaganda and terror............. such as we are subjected to and controlled by today.