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A Past Without Shadow examines 50 years of German children's books in which the darkest horrors of the Third Reich have routinely remained hidden. The horrors of the Third Reich are systematically screened and filtered, allowing the darker, bleaker parts of history to escape illumination. Here Zohar Shavit explores 345 German books for children describing the Third Reich and the Holocaust, and finds a shocking distortion of the past: a recurrent narrative which suggests that the Germans themselves had no hand in the suffering inflicted on the Jews. These books, Shavit argues, have cre

Children's literature, German --- Young adult literature, German --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Children --- National socialism in literature. --- German children's literature --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects. --- Books and reading --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- oorlogen --- jeugdliteratuur --- historische jeugdliteratuur