As a result of World War II, West and East Germany were established in 1949. West Germany was divided and occupied by the three Western allies while the Soviet Union occupied East Germany.
From the beginning, West Germany was opposed to totalitaria...
As a result of World War II, West and East Germany were established in 1949. West Germany was divided and occupied by the three Western allies while the Soviet Union occupied East Germany.
From the beginning, West Germany was opposed to totalitarianism and embraced anti-Nazism and anti-communism. For this reason, anti-communism became a fundamental element for integration and for the development of political self-understanding in the West German society.
This study investigated the inferred anti-communist education of the West in terms of what was done in the schools in that regard, and analyzed the images of communism that appeared in the Social Studies textbooks in West Germany, where Social studies class was devoted to political education. In addition, this study sought to find the important issues addressed by the anti-communism education, and the changes as well as pluralistic perspectives that occurred in the content and image of education in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and until the unification in 1990 that could be considered remarkable.