EuroClio history publication Once Upon A Time … We Lived Together is described as a good step to encouraging students to think about multi-perspective stories and reflect on differences between representations throughout history, according to DW report on “South Eastern Europe: The First World War in Textbooks”. It will enable education to “try to bring into balance the various interpretations in order to arrive at a common European history.”
The report discusses the questions students are faced with when the first world war in South Eastern Europe: Was the assassin of Sarajevo a hero or a terrorist? What are the reasons for the outbreak of the First World War? And notes that students in Southeast European countries get different answers in their textbooks. For example, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the textbooks are divided along ethnic lines: There’s own history of Serbian, Croatian and Muslim Bosnians. Thus is where EUROLCIO’s publication illustrating the events in the former Yugoslavia from the period 1912-1945 from different angles is useful. “There is an attempt to shed light on the assassination of Franz Ferdinand with various sources.”
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