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albeit without further explaining or criticizing this attitude, its alleged motivations and
justifications.
Didactic approach
In addition to advice given to pupils to carry out independent research, this textbook contains
several questions which encourage reflection about historical dilemmas via empathy with
protagonists. These include such questions as, ‘How would you feel if you were one of the
German Jews ... Or how would you feel if your friends were among those’ (sic. p. 86), or
‘What do you think you would do, especially if you knew very well that lending support to a
Jewish friend might cost you your own life’ (p. 100).
National idiosyncrasies
Unusually, the Holocaust and the Second World War are treated in separate chapters; the
Holocaust is contextualized in a chapter about the social impact of Hitler’s personal power on
Germany. Thus the personalization of the motivations and causes of the Holocaust governs
the organization of material concerning the Holocaust in this textbook. No connections are
established between European and non-European history or with other genocides, nor is
the event explained in universal moral or legal terms.
Bibliography
Ling, J. and Paul, A. 2013. All About History. The Making of the Contemporary World Order 1870s-1991 (Unit 2: The
World in Crisis). Singapore, Pearson Education South Asia.
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