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ERIC Number: EJ1261083
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 31
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ISSN: ISSN-2041-6938
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"Hitlermania": Nazism and the Holocaust in Indian History Textbooks
Banerjee, Basabi Khan; Stöber, Georg
Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, v12 n1 p43-73 Mar 2020
Recent surveys and reports document a growing phenomenon of "Hitlermania" in some parts of India. This article investigates whether the way in which National Socialism is presented in school education has encouraged this development or, on the contrary, has discouraged a positive valuation of the Nazis, including their leader. It analyzes curricula and a sample of school history textbooks published by state and central education boards, which have been used in Indian schools over the last two decades, focusing on their treatment of National Socialism and the Holocaust. While the results can be partly attributed to government interference in the school history curricula and in textbook writing, there appear to have been other factors at play, such as the social environment.
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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