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. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Weiner, Daniela R. P., 1990- Teaching a dark chapter. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501775444 |
| LCCN | 2023057745 |
| ISBN | 9781501775437 |
| ISBN | 150177543X |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |