Language:
German
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
187 (2008) 93-102
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Education
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
Abstract:
Traces the influence of public attitudes toward the Holocaust, of current events and of politics, on Holocaust education in Germany. In the first postwar years, Germans tended to treat the facts of the Holocaust as mere opinions - until the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials jolted them into consciousness of their objective reality. Since then, Holocaust education has served to stimulate young people's thinking about human rights in general, against racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and neo-Nazism. But the two curriculum hours devoted to it on the average are most inadequate unless the teacher supplements them with projects, visits, and meetings with eyewitnesses and survivors. Such presentday phenomena as genocide in Africa or the Guantanamo prison camp can help understand the Holocaust, without, however, relativizing it.
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