03. Public history, educational history and historical representations of the Holocaust with Nicholas K. Johnson

This month we spoke to Nicholas K. Johnson from the Center for German-American Educational History at the University of Münster about a new edited volume, Show, Don't Tell. Education and historical representations on stage and screen in Germany and the USA. Our wide-ranging discussion touches on the definitions and uses of public history; transatlantic developments in the field; the relationship between public history and educational history; film as an educational tool; and the educative potential of Holocaust film, drawing on Nicholas’s research on HBO’s Conspiracy.

To read access the edited volume, find out more about the Center for German-American Educational History, and follow some of the references in our conversation, follow the links below:

Tim Zumhof and Nicholas K. Johnson (eds.), Show, don't tell. Education and historical representations on stage and screen in Germany and the USA (link to buy and link for open access)

Nicholas K. Johnson, ‘”A classroom history lesson is not going to work". HBO's Conspiracy and depicting Holocaust perpetrators on film’

The Center for German-American Educational History

Alex Kay’s article on Conspiracy

Richard Brody’s review of The Captain 

Son of Saul

Holocaust Series (with Meryl Streep)

Die Wannseekonferenz

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