Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
22 (1992) 287-307
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Nazi concentration camps
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
Abstract:
An evaluation of 22 schoolbooks published in West Germany between 1981-90. In contrast to the first decade of the FRG, when textbooks hardly mentioned Auschwitz, accounts of it are now given as a rule. However, they are not free of drawbacks. Auschwitz is presented in the perspective of the perpetrators, not of the victims. The texts focus on the organizational side of the camps, not on the sufferings of the victims, and there is a tendency to downplay the scope of the murder. Some textbooks try to correct this defect and give accounts of young people who were in Auschwitz, or include questions inviting pupils to find out what happened during the Nazi period to the Jews in their own town, i.e. they try to impel the pupils to identify with the victims. Stresses that mentioning Auschwitz cannot be equated with remembering. Pp. 306-307 give a list of the textbooks included in the survey.
Note:
See also in Hebrew.
,
A German version appeared in "Internationale Schulbuchforschung" 13, 1991.
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