Language:
French
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Les Temps Modernes
Angaben zur Quelle:
547 (1992) 139-160
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Jews Education
Abstract:
Only from 1957 was the subject of the Second World War included in French textbooks for secondary schools, with very little information on the Holocaust. Its specificity was not mentioned, nor the role of the Vichy regime. The textbooks contained many fallacies and inaccuracies. The situation changed in the 1980s, mainly due to Lanzmann's film "Shoah" and the publication in France of some important books about the Holocaust period. The textbooks were revised, with the Holocaust more accurately depicted as part of the history of World War II. Vichy policy is described, but the tradition of French antisemitism is still not mentioned. Concludes that this situation is an effect of the difficulties of Western Europe in accepting a history which resulted in the genocide of the Jews.
Note:
Appeared also in "Enseigner l'histoire de la Shoah" (2010) 129-150.
,
Appeared in German as "Der Unterricht über die Schoah im staatlichen französischen Schulwesen 1945-1990" in "Judentum und jüdische Geschichte im Schulunterricht nach 1945" (1994) 95-112.
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