A past without shadow : constructing the past in German books for children / Zohar Shavit ; [translated from the Hebrew by Aaron Jaffe and Atarah Jaffe].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.

Part I: The "Story" of the German Past and the Construction of its Past Image -- Chapter 1: The Development of German Books for Children on the Third Reich and World War II -- Chapter 2: Keys to the Past Image -- Chapter 3" Construction of the Past Image -- -- Part II: Strategies in the Construction of the "Story" -- Chapter 4: "Present, but not in Place" -- Chapter 5: "The Dream of the Thousand-Year Reich" - the Borders of the Reich and the Boundaries of Time -- Chapter 6: "Some of my Best Friends ... " - Philo-Semitic and Anti-Semitic Descriptions of the Jews -- Chapter 7: "Not the Way it Looks" - Nazis and Pseudo-Nazis -- Chapter 8: "If Only I Could ... " - An Analogy between Jews and Nazis -- -- Part III Whose War was it? -- Chapter 9 "The Whole People ... " - the Scope of the Resistance Movement -- Chapter 10 "Actually, I Myself was a Victim" - the Germans as Victims -- Chapter 11 "I'm not Guilty" - the Germans and Guilt -- -- Part IV The Construction of an Alternative Discourse -- Chapter 12 "Seeing it Differently" - An Alternative Narrative -- Conclusion: The Image of the Past in German Public Discourse and Texts for Children