Teaching a Dark Chapter (eBook)

History Books and the Holocaust in Italy and the Germanys

Daniela R. P. Weiner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
282 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-7544-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Teaching a Dark Chapter explores how textbook narratives about the Fascist/Nazi past in Italy, East Germany, and West Germany followed relatively calm, undisturbed paths of little change until isolated "flashpoints" catalyzed the educational infrastructure into periods of rapid transformation. Though these flashpoints varied among Italy and the Germanys, they all roughly conformed to a chronological scheme and permanently changed how each "dark past" was represented.

Historians have often neglected textbooks as sources in their engagement with the reconstruction of postfascist states and the development of postwar memory culture. But as Teaching a Dark Chapter demonstrates, textbooks yield new insights and suggest a new chronology of the changes in postwar memory culture that other sources overlook. Employing a methodological and temporal rethinking of the narratives surrounding the development of European Holocaust memory, Daniela R. P. Weiner reveals how, long before 1968, textbooks in these three countries served as important tools to influence public memory about Nazi/Fascist atrocities.

As Fascism had been spread through education, then education must play a key role in undoing the damage. Thus, to repair and shape postwar societies, textbooks became an avenue to inculcate youths with desirable democratic and socialist values. Teaching a Dark Chapter weds the historical study of public memory with the educational study of textbooks to ask how and why the textbooks were created, what they said, and how they affected the society around them.

Autor

Daniela Weiner is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. She has published in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society, and Journal of Contemporary History.

Inhalt

Introduction: The "Dark Chapter"
1. Laboratory of Democracy: Italy, 1943-1946
2. "We Have Decided Not to Kill the Germans, but to Educate Them": Educational Reform in Quadripartite Germany
3. History as the Crux of Our Problem": Fixing History Textbooks in Occupied Germany
4. History as Political Education: Mustering Contemporary History in the Fight Against Fascism
5. Early Grapplings: The Textbooks and Jewish Victims
6. Redeeming the State: Resistance in the Textbooks
7. Turbulent Times and Stagnant Schoolbooks: The Textbooks FallBehind
8. Living Historical Practice: New Approaches to the Fascist/Nazi Past
9. The Double Reversal: East Germany Leaps Ahead
Conclusion: History Lessons

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: democracy, socialism, postwar education, textbooks, fascism, Holocaust, WWII, Germany and Italy
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-7544-8 / 1501775448
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-7544-4 / 9781501775444