Teaching a dark chapter : history books and the holocaust in Italy and the Germanys / Daniela R. P. Weiner.

Author/creator Weiner, Daniela R. P., 1990- author.
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PublicationIthaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024.
Descriptionpages cm
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Contents Introduction: The "dark chapter" -- The laboratory of democracy: Italy, 1943-1946 -- "We have decided not to kill the Germans, but to educate them": Educational reform in quadripartite Germany -- "History as the crux of our problem": Fixing history textbooks in occupied Germany -- History as political education: Mustering contemporary history in the fight against fascism -- Early grapplings: The textbooks and Jewish victims -- Redeeming the state: Resistance in the textbooks -- Turbulent times and stagnant schoolbooks: The textbooks fall behind -- Living historical practice: New approaches to the Fascist / Nazi past -- The double reversal: East Germany leaps ahead -- Conclusion: History lessons.
Abstract "The book studies how the Holocaust was taught in Italian, East German, and West German postwar history textbooks during the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Weiner, Daniela R. P., 1990- Teaching a dark chapter. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501775444
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