Tendentious Texts: Holocaust Representations and Nation-Rebuilding in East German, Italian, and West German Schoolbooks, 1949-1989
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Weiner, Daniela
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- This thesis examines how post-fascist countries—East Germany, Italy, and West Germany—represented the Second World War and the Holocaust in middle school history textbooks. History textbooks were important actors in the creation of new democratic communities in East Germany, Italy, and West Germany. Through a transnational comparison of one leading textbook published in each country, this paper answers why and how West Germany was eventually more successful than East Germany and Italy in conveying its youth with a more nuanced and self-critical national memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust. This paper also shows how West German textbooks both reflected and contributed to this relative success. Such knowledge is imperative, not just to understand the past, but also to provide a better grasp of how to democratize youth in the future—an important topic given the specter of right-wing ethno-nationalism that has seen a revival in recent years.
- Date of publication
- May 2017
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- Hof, Tobias
- Jarausch, Konrad Hugo
- Auerbach, Karen
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2017
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