A LONG WAY TO UNITY: THE HISTORY OF THE GDR ON THE PAGES OF CONTEMPORARY GERMANY TEXTBOOKS
History textbooks remain one of the most important sources for the formation of ideas about the past, even in modern conditions of digitalization. The article examines the features of the coverage of the history of the GDR on the pages of textbooks for gymnasiums in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. We analyzed textbooks from the “History and Events” line of 2006 and 2019. release and teaching materials for teachers from this line, as well as the methodological manual “Questions of the history of the twentieth century”. The textbooks were analyzed according to the following main criteria: the volume and content of the chapter on the history of the GDR; types of sources presented in textbooks; examples of tasks; general assessments and conclusions of the authors .