Tendentious texts: Holocaust representations and nation-rebuilding in East German, Italian, and West German schoolbooks, 1949–1989Footnote^*

* Versions of this article were presented at the 2016 BAHS conference and the 2016 AJS conference. Most textbooks considered in this article are housed at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research.

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