When Will We Talk About Hitler? : : German Students and the Nazi Past / / Alexandra Oeser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Oeser, Alexandra,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds of Memory ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional determination not to forget has expressed a “duty of remembrance” through commemorative activities and educational curricula. But as the horrors of the T...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface to the English Edition (2019)
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Education in the Service of Democracy
• Chapter 2. Talking about the Nazi Past in Class and Succeeding at School
• Chapter 3. Gender, Family, and the Nazi Past(s)
• Chapter 4. The Nazi Past as an Everyday Resource for Adolescents
• Chapter 5. The Social and Cultural Limits to Appropriations of the Nazi Past
• Chapter 6. Peer-Group Dynamics and Playful Uses of the Past
• Conclusion. From Memory to Appropriation(s)
• Appendix 1. The German School System
• Appendix 2. Structure of Interviews with Students
• Appendix 3. Summary Table of Teachers
• Appendix 4. List of Teachers Interviewed
• Appendix 5. List of Students Interviewed
• References
• Index