Holocaust und Vernichtungskrieg

Die Darstellung der deutschen Gesellschaft und Wehrmacht in Geschichtsschulbuchern fur die Sekundarstufe I und II

by Etienne Schinkel

Book cover: Holocaust und Vernichtungskrieg

Extent: 582 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur Geschichtsdidaktik

Series volume number: 16

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(May 2018)

ISBN: 9783847108580

6.06 x 9.09 inches

Price: $99.00

In stock

Welche Narrative und Deutungen enthalten Geschichtslehrwerke uber die ganz normalen Deutschen, uber ihre Kenntnis vom Holocaust, ihre antisemitische Einstellung und ihre Reaktionen auf die antijudischen Massnahmen des NS-Regimes?


When students encounter the theme of National Socialism for the first time in history lessons, they have already formed relatively strong ideas about the Nazi dictatorship through the manifold manifestations of public history and the oral traditions in the circle of relatives and acquaintances. Often, learners tend to a victimisation of the perpetrators and to an exculpation of the non-Jewish society. Etienne Schinkel examines different history textbooks whether they make discussable such unhistorical concepts. What are the narratives and interpretations of textbooks about the ‘normal’ Germans, their knowledge of the Holocaust, their anti-Semitic attitude and their reactions to the anti-Jewish measures of the Nazi regime?

  • By (author) Etienne Schinkel