Die Kriegsvergangenheit als schwere Bürde für die Zukunft Kroatiens und Serbiens
Wartime Past as a Heavy Burden for Croatia’s and Serbia’s Future

Summary/Abstract: More than two decades since the end of war accompanying the disintegration of former Yugoslavia,the bloody chapter remains little scrutinized, neither legally nor scientifically. With the topic blacked out by most politicians in the region, hope fell on education in schools.The analysis of the most recent schoolbooks in Croatia and Serbia, however, exposes an extremely unrealistic attribution of culpability, an uncritical justification of one’s own standpoint, a minimization of one’s own mistakes and an inflation in the number of victims each side has suffered. Swirling conspiracy theories and reality distortion round off this distorted narrative.The planned relaunch of the regional truth commissions in all countries that emerged from the former multi-ethnic federation raises expectations of improvement.

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