Prologue
Unlessons, Far and Near
“Who Has the Youth, Has the Future”
Part I ‘‘The Citadel of Learning’’
The Making and Unmaking of the German Communist, 1945–89
1From Brown to Red
The Fall and Rise of an Educational System, 1945–51
2Marooned in the Workers’ Paradise
Cold War Catechetics, 1951–61
3After the Wall
Pride before the Fall, 1961–89
Part II (Post)Socialism with a German Face, 1989–95
4After the Wall II
The Fall and Rise of an Educational System
5Leipzig, 1990
Karl Marx-Universitat, RIP:
Postmortems on the God that Failed
6Plauen, 1990/1992/1994
From Schoolmarm to Revolutionary:
Annaliese Saupe, Old “New Teacher” and Local Heroine
7Leipzig, 1991
Of Laughter and Forgetting:
A Faculty-Student Conflict of Generations
8Berlin, 1991
Dialectical Dilemmas in the Universities:
West Side Story, East Side Story
9Leipzig, 1993
Of Sport, State, and Stasi:
Socialism with an Un-Beautiful Face
10Weimar, 1991; Weimar/Röcken, 1994
Zarathustra as Educator? To the Nietzsche Archives
11Berlin, 1994
Bridge over Broken Glass?
A Journey to Germany’s Sole Jewish High School
12Weimar, 1994
Difficulties with the Truth:
Coping with the DDR’s Past in the New Eastern Classroom
Epilogue
Education for Tolerance, Education for National Identity: The Unusable German Past?