When will we talk about Hitler?: German students and the Nazi past

For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional determination not to forget has expressed a "duty of remembrance" through commemorative activities and educational curricula. But as the horror...

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1. Verfasser: Oeser, Alexandra (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Throssell, Katharine (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Worlds of memory Volume 1
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Zusammenfassung:For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional determination not to forget has expressed a "duty of remembrance" through commemorative activities and educational curricula. But as the horrors of the Third Reich retreat ever further from living memory, what do new generations of Germans actually think about this past? Combining observation, interviews, and archival research, this book provides a rich survey of the perspectives and experiences of German adolescents from diverse backgrounds, revealing the extent to which social, economic, and cultural factors have conditioned how they view representations of Germany's complex history
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 394 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781789202878
DOI:10.1515/9781789202878