L’immagine della Seconda guerra mondiale nei manuali di storia cechi (1990–2017)

This paper investigates the visual apparatus of Czech history textbooks published between 1990–2017. This time span covers the period following the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the subsequent political regime change, extending through to the end of the 2010s. The interpretation of the Second World War plays a key role as it also shapes the reflection on later periods, including the communist regime and the Cold War, as well as the desire to identify commonalities in the development of the two halves of Europe – Western and Eastern – within the broader European discourse. The paper focuses on analyzing the images that constitute what may be called the visual “catalog” of the specific Czech experience during the Second World War. It examines which images are commonly shared across textbooks and which one