@article{57593,
  abstract     = {{Between Dethematizing and Demonetisation: The Holocaust in depictions of National-Socialism and World War Two on YouTube – In September 2018, an ambitious 
and highly noteworthy project for the construction and distribution of a broad-reaching portrayal of 20th-century violence in the digital age was launched: the YouTube 
channel World War Two (WW2). Their mission was to present the experiences of 
those who lived through the war in a radically objective, apolitical, and detailed 
manner. The main series, sharing the same title as the channel, focused on military 
events, while another series titled War Against Humanity (WAH) would address 
war crimes, human rights abuses, the mass murder of civilians and prisoners of 
war, Nazi euthanasia crimes, and the Holocaust. This division of the narrative into 
a military history (main series) and a separate history of war crimes and the Holocaust (side series) raises important questions about the conditions, opportunities, 
and limitations that YouTube’s media and economic structures impose on the portrayal of war, mass violence, and genocide. The paper also examines how these 
structures influence the narrative and shape the presented historical image, and 
what consequences arise for the depiction of war and history from an academic perspective. Lastly, it explores the reasons behind this narrative split: whether it was 
a deliberate decision to systematically differentiate the storytelling or a strategic 
move shaped by YouTube’s media and economic constraints. The question arises: 
to what extent can historical education on digital platforms like YouTube, driven 
by the need for content monetization, still align closely with academic standards?}},
  author       = {{Quast, Julia}},
  journal      = {{Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung}},
  keywords     = {{Zweiter Weltkrieg, Holocaust, Geschichtsbild, Public History, Social Media, YouTube, Erinnerungskultur}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{264--291}},
  publisher    = {{Velbrück }},
  title        = {{{Zwischen Dethematisierung und Demonetarisierung  Der Holocaust in Darstellungen von NS  und Zweitem Weltkrieg auf YouTube}}},
  volume       = {{22}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}