Ritzer, Nadine (2019). 1968 in German-speaking Switzerland: Controversies and Interpretations. In: Christophe, Barbara; Gautschi, Peter; Thorp, Robert (eds.) Teaching the Cold War: International Perspectives on Memory practices in Educational Media and in the Classroom (pp. 289-315). London: Palgrave 10.1007/978-3-030-11999-7_14

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Nadine Ritzer explores how the events of 1968 have been, and are still, taught in German-speaking Switzerland. Focusing on and contrasting the Prague Spring and the Vietnam War, Ritzer explores varying responses to binary approaches toward the Cold War and the relationship between East and West. The chapter traces the shifts in teaching both events that have occurred, particularly looking at how these narratives destabilised the region’s own established ideologies, and how textbook design also had implications for the degrees of criticism levelled at these discourses. The chapter, relying on first person accounts, delineates how teachers themselves often deviated from textbooks in the classroom when approaching both the Prague Spring and the Vietnam War.

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