The current context differs, nonetheless history manuals could help as well…
In highschool during history class we received manuals from a Realschule in Germany. I was absolutely struck by the amount of information, the detailed-morbid modality and exemplar thoroughness in which the Nazi period was discussed in that school manual. True, my Romanian history book discussed communism... maximum 20 pages of complete generalities intended to cover 50 years of ‘events’. I was wondering the other day while reading the news how detailed & serious the discussion on the fascist period in the Italian history manuals is?
My hope, no, in fact my belief is that institutions – be they national or the European ones – will compensate human ‘failure’ and humans themselves will overcome scapegoatish temptations and continue building institutions.
