Holocaust Education and Multicultural Education in a Diverse Germany

• In Event: Negotiating Culture Across Content, Time, or Geography

Abstract

The reunification of Germany marked not only a new political way forward, but also created a space for reassessing Germany’s past. The process of reunification and subsequent reexamination of identity and memory has also meant confronting the reality of multiculturalism in contemporary Germany. As the schools attempt to navigate these multicultural realities, engagement with the Holocaust presents, perhaps, unexpected challenges. This paper investigates, in one German state, the conflicts and compromises presented by the demands to have both a robust Holocaust and Multicultural education.

Author

• Debora Hinderliter Ortloff, University of Houston - Clear Lake