When Will We Talk About Hitler?

German Students and the Nazi Past

Alexandra Oeser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

418 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-644-3 (ISBN)

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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 Third Reich retreat ever further from living memory, what do new generations of Germans actually think about this past? Combining observation, interviews, and archival research, this book provides a rich survey of the perspectives and experiences of German adolescents from diverse backgrounds, revealing the extent to which social, economic, and cultural factors have conditioned how they view representations of Germany’s complex history.

Alexandra Oeser is currently Professor of Sociology at Paris Nanterre University. Her most recent publication is Collectif du 9 août: Quand ils ont fermé l’usine (2017).

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

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 and List of Teachers Interviewed

Appendix 4: List of Students Interviewed

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-80073-644-4 / 1800736444
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-644-3 / 9781800736443
Zustand	Neuware