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Author Blessing, Benita, author

Title The antifascist classroom : denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Benita Blessing
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction * Antifascism, Unity, and Division * Setting up the School * Rebuilding the School * Rubble Children and the Construction of Gender Roles * The Antifascist Narrative * Antifascist Heroes: The Return of the Father * Reestablishing Traditions * Conclusion
Summary This study explores the history of the "new school" that developed in the immediate postwar period and its role in communicating antifascism to young people in the Soviet zone. Blessing traces how the decisions about how to educate young people after twelve years of a National Socialist dictatorship became part of a broader discussion about the future of the German nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-278) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Education -- Social aspects -- Germany (East) -- History
Education and state -- Germany (East)
EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Education and state
Education -- Social aspects
Germany (East)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230601635
0230601634
1403976120
9781403976123