Nazism and racism in South African textbooks
TitleNazism and racism in South African textbooks
Author
Call number940.5318/0544
Object number10566n
Place of publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
PublisherWayne State University Press
Year of publication
2019
Physical descriptionpp350-385
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp350-385
Description
Explores how the Nazi past has been taught in South Africa from the 1950s to the 2010s, problematizing the linkage between Nazism and apartheid and showing that connections considered obvious today were for several decades not seen as such. Many apartheid-era textbooks use the language of “race” to explain Nazi actions, while post-apartheid textbooks often associate the Holocaust and apartheid in simplistic and unquestioning ways