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Teaching a Dark Chapter
2024
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ EDUCATION & HISTORY OF EDUCATION
/ Europe
/ fascism
/ Germany
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front
/ Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
/ Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Historiography
/ Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Study and teaching-Germany
/ Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Study and teaching-Italy
/ Italy
/ Western
/ WWII
ISBN
150177543X, 9781501775437, 9781501775444, 1501775448, 1501775456, 9781501775451
