This diploma thesis shall provide an instruction on how to prepare a visit to the Mauthausen Memo... more This diploma thesis shall provide an instruction on how to prepare a visit to the Mauthausen Memorial with high school students and how to reflect on this visit for history teachers. Therefore, it is structured in a historical-scientific and a historical-didactic section. The former contains a brief summary of the history of the shoah, a chapter on the history of concentration camps as such, and a chapter in the history of the concentration camp Mauthausen. The latter consists of chapters covering: Remembrance and the model of memory by Aleida and Jan Assmann; memorial sites in general and didactics concerning those; Holocaust Education, its objectives and how to achieve them; references to the Austrian high school curriculum concerning the visit of Mauthausen Memorial; objectives for a visit of the Mauthausen Memorial; a scheduling for four lessons, two of which to prepare the students for the visit by providing them basic information concerning the nationals socialist concentratio...
This diploma thesis shall provide an instruction on how to prepare a visit to the Mauthausen Memo... more This diploma thesis shall provide an instruction on how to prepare a visit to the Mauthausen Memorial with high school students and how to reflect on this visit for history teachers. Therefore, it is structured in a historical-scientific and a historical-didactic section. The former contains a brief summary of the history of the shoah, a chapter on the history of concentration camps as such, and a chapter in the history of the concentration camp Mauthausen. The latter consists of chapters covering: Remembrance and the model of memory by Aleida and Jan Assmann; memorial sites in general and didactics concerning those; Holocaust Education, its objectives and how to achieve them; references to the Austrian high school curriculum concerning the visit of Mauthausen Memorial; objectives for a visit of the Mauthausen Memorial; a scheduling for four lessons, two of which to prepare the students for the visit by providing them basic information concerning the nationals socialist concentratio...
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