| 英文摘要 |
The meaning of 'Hiroshima' in Germany has changed considerably in the last years. The name 'Hiroshima' is the symbol for the first atomic bombing in the history of mankind, for the horror of over 100,000 deaths and for the warning“never again”. In the nuclear-critical discourse in the 1950s, 'Hiroshima' was regarded alongside 'Auschwitz' as the signature of the era. ''Never again Hiroshima'' became the slogan of different German peace movements, at the end of the 1950s up to the early 1980s. None of these movements achieved their goals. Today, knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as sites of nuclear destruction cannot be taken for granted, especially among younger generations. The question of what knowledge is taught at school will be investigated by an analysis of 20 history textbooks that are approved in North Rhine-Westphalia: The Pacific War as well as the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occupy only a minimal place in the presentation of World War II, the German textbooks often prove to be one-sided, insofar as they adopt the official American view, and reductionist, as the complexity of the reasons for the atomic bombings and the moral issues are rarely addressed. The legacy of 'Hiroshima' is politically controversial in contemporary Germany. There are many social initiatives in the spirit of‘Hiroshima’, the abolition of all nuclear weapons with the aim of a nuclear-free, but government policy and the media mainstream are unimpressed by this and the peace movements are divided in the face of the Russian war against Ukraine. |
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