Education After Auschwitz in a United Germany
A Comparative Analysis of the Teaching of the History of National Socialism in East and West Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6059375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Meseth (0009-0001-2889-008X, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 13-38 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1056-4934 • E-ISSN: 1944-7086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2753/eue1056-4934440301 |
| OpenAlex | W2021486949 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article explores the teaching of the history of National Socialism in East and West Germany. Against the backdrop of the dual politics of memory that existed before reunification, the article examines how the divergent value systems of the two German nations came together to produce a single national conception of "Education after Auschwitz" in the post-1989 period. Not until German reunification and the revision of East Germany's antifascist view of history was a universalist perspective on the Holocaust able to establish itself as a legitimate component of German memory culture. While from the 1960s to the late 1980s the teaching of the Nazi past was primarily focused on making young people aware of the special German responsibility to remember, today the national character of an "Education after Auschwitz" has become infused with universal values such as tolerance and human rights (Meseth, 2005). German reunification made it possible to compare National Socialism with Stalinism, thereby reframing the Holocaust from a specific problem unique to German history to an example of totalitarianism from which important lessons could be drawn about human rights
Antisemitism · Cognitive reframing · Collective memory · Communism · German · Human rights · Judaism · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology
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Erziehung zur Demokratie? Amerikanische Besatzungs- und Schulreformpolitik in Deutschland und Japan
Learning Democracy
What Does It Mean to Normalize the past? Official Memory in German Politics since 1989
What Does It Mean to Normalize the Past
Hitler and the Uniqueness of Nazism
The Third Reich in German History Textbooks since 1945
Mission on the Rhine
World Society and the Nation-State
The cosmopolitan perspective
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |