History Teaching at Czech Primary Schools during Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia

(in English): The thesis aims to illuminate the ways of teaching history at the primary schools in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. It explores why history is being taught at schools in general, it analyses Nazi pedagogy and the way in which the Nazi interpretation of history approaches nationalism and national stories. The thesis describes teacher re-education, control of teaching by the state apparatus, changes in syllabus, censorship of teaching materials. It explains the changes in the history interpretation compared to previous years. It identifies which authors were approved and which, on the contrary, had to be discarded from school libraries. In the end the thesis analyses the text of the only permitted textbook for elementary schools - Stručné dějiny Říše. In the Nazi interpretation the history is viewed through a primordial prism. The interpretation of history in the protectorate textbook is not consistent and includes many contradictions, though