4/ The National-Socialist-led German school in Stockholm 1941-1945: an institution of cultural propaganda
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 52, 4|2022
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“Deutsche Schule Stockholm, Eingangstor Karlavägen 25” by ReinerausH on Flickr (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Italiano
Il 21 ottobre 1941, una scuola tedesca sotto il controllo del Partito nazionalsocialista apriva le sue porte a Stoccolma. Alla cerimonia di apertura, tanto i funzionari svedesi quanto quelli tedeschi fecero riferimento ai legami storici di lunga data tra i due Paesi e descrissero la scuola come un garanzia per lo scambio culturale e l’istruzione svedese-tedesca. Lo stesso regime nazionalsocialista covava un interesse speciale per i Paesi nordici in generale, e per la Svezia in particolare, poiché l’Europa settentrionale era considerata come parte essenziale di un Kulturvolk tedesco dai connotati razziali. Tuttavia, mentre il regime nazista prevedeva l’istituzione di una scuola tedesca come strumento di propaganda culturale, al suo interno si rese necessario mantenere un difficile equilibrio. Questo articolo analizza le modalità attraverso cui la scuola divenne parte della propaganda nazionalsocialista, studiando il modo in cui una specifica versione nazista della germanicità fu propugnata e strumentalizzata dai funzionari e dagli insegnanti nazisti tra il 1941 e il 1945.
Parole chiave: propaganda culturale nazista, scuole naziste all’estero, germanicità, neutralità svedese, Stoccolma.
English
On the 21st of October 1941, a National-Socialist-led German school opened its doors in Stockholm. At the opening ceremony, both Swedish and German officials alluded to long-standing historical connections between the two countries and described the school as a warrant for cultural exchange and Swedish-German education. The National-Socialist regime itself had a special interest in the Nordic countries in general, and Sweden in particular, as Northern Europe was imagined as an essential part of a racialized German Kulturvolk. However, while the National-Socialist regime envisioned the establishment of a German school as an instrument of cultural propaganda, a difficult balance had to be maintained at the school. This article discusses how the school became part of National-Socialist propaganda by studying the way in which a specific NS-version of Germanness was activated and instrumentalized by National-Socialist officials and teachers between 1941-45.
Keywords: National-Socialist cultural propaganda, National-Socialist schools abroad, Germanness, Swedish neutrality, Stockholm.
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Susan Lindholm, PhD in History and History Didactics, works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Stockholm University. Her research interests include cultural history, memory, and gender in connection to transnational and translocal othering processes. In one of her ongoing projects, which is funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, she focuses on the German schools in Stockholm and Helsinki between 1933-1995.
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Lindholm, Susan, «The National-Socialist-led German school in Stockholm 1941-1945: an institution of cultural propaganda », Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 52, 4|2022
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2022/12/29/lindholm_numero_52/ >
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«The National-Socialist-led German school in Stockholm 1941-1945: an institution of cultural propaganda » by Susan Lindholm / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Unported.
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