TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lansing,Charles B.
TI  - From Nazism to Communism: German Schoolteachers under Two Dictatorships 
T2  - Harvard Historical Studies
SN  - 9780674059740
U1  - 370.943/0904 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Communism and education
KW  - Germany (East)
KW  - Education and state
KW  - History
KW  - Germany
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Education
KW  - National socialism and education
KW  - Teachers
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Germany
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1 National Socialism’s Assault on German Teachers --; 2 The Incomplete Revolution of the National Socialist Teachers’ League --; 3 Keeeping the Schools Running during the War --; 4 Transforming the Teaching Staff under Soviet Occupation --; 5 The Creation of a Genuine Teachers’ Union --; 6 The Sovietization of Teachers and Their Union --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, Charles Lansing analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships. Lansing uses the town of Brandenburg an der Havel as a case study to examine ideological reeducation projects requiring the full mobilization of the schools and the active participation of a transformed teaching staff. Although lesson plans were easily changed, skilled teachers were neither quickly made nor easily substituted. The men and women charged in the postwar era with educating a new “antifascist” generation were, to a surprising degree, the same individuals who had worked to “Nazify” pupils in the Third Reich. But significant discontinuities existed as well, especially regarding the teachers' professional self-understanding and attitudes toward the state-sanctioned teachers' union. The mixture of continuities and discontinuities helped to stabilize the early GDR as it faced its first major crisis in the uprising of June 17, 1953. This uniquely comparative work sheds new light on an essential story as it reconceptualizes the traditional periodization of postwar German and European history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674059740?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674059740
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674059740/original
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