Perceptions and images of the Cold War as they appear in textbooks in the classroom but also
in public and in the scientific discourse are topic of this volume Remembering and Recounting
the Cold War - Commonly Shared History?. These perceptions and images are particularly
interesting because they are part of the communicative memory and are thus in the process of
undergoing change. It is also the task of history didactics here understood as a science
concerned with investigating theorizing on and staging the way of how people and societies
deal with history and memories to describe to analyze and to interpret such moldings of
teaching cultures memory cultures and of course individual and collective views of this era.
