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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oeser, Alexandra (Author)
Other Authors: Throssell, Katharine (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2019.
Edition:English-language edition.
Series:Worlds of memory ; volume 1
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Education in the service of democracy
  • Talking about the Nazi past in class and succeeding at school
  • Gender, family and the Nazi past(s)
  • The Nazi past as an everyday resource for adolescents
  • The social and cultural limits to appropriations of the Nazi past
  • Peer-group dynamics and playful uses of the past
  • Conclusion: From memory to appropriation(s).