Holocaust representation in Dutch history textbooks 1960-2010

When teaching emotionally taxing and historically complex topics, many teachers rely on history textbooks. The Holocaust, being a mandatory subject in the Netherlands from the 1960s onwards, is such a topic. In most of the textbooks that I have analyzed from the period 1960-2010, representations of the Holocaust ignore the complexity of the Holocaust. Factual renditions are inaccurate, the historical context of Judaism is completely absent and the ‘perpetrator narrative’ is still the most dominant viewpoint of the Holocaust in most textbooks. In most cases, the Holocaust is seen as a by-produc... Mehr ...