Culture of Remembrance of the Holocaust in Germany's Policy of Denazification
The article examines the place and role of the Holocaust in today's German commemoration practices in the framework of the policy of denazification. The study focuses on the analysis of the Holocaust education, its development throughout history and its main components. One of the main objectives of the article is to scrutinize the acute problems of modern German patterns of remembrance culture in German educational policy in terms of reasons, the course and results of World War II and the Holocaust as a culmination of ethnic cleansing conducted by Third Reich. The historical analysis of the process of denazification after World War II showed that the representation of the Holocaust and policy of memory were developing in accordance with the paradigm of German memorial culture originated from the Nuremberg trials. They were the basis for democratic, tolerant and peaceful society in the framework of educational policy. In spite of debate and controversy within the EU, the Holocaust education assuming a more important role in the life of society, served as a key element for establishing a trans - European identity. The possibility of reconsidering historical memory, which stems from modern social and political processes, does not imply the revision of the results of the war or the denial of historical guilt in German educational programs at the federal and regional levels. The programs will be based on democratic principles and created by means of active participation of the German society, which the Holocaust remembrance culture was transmitted to through the educational system. Consequently, the Holocaust is becoming an integral part of the German identity and plays a major role in shaping democratic beliefs and active civic stance of the German youth.