However, do these productions meet the great challenge for the historical education of the public? Very often they don’t! Although it is through exactly this kind of film that our understanding of the past is developed and our image of history is shaped, the majority of cinema and TV productions abound in easily avoidable mistakes concerning historical props, the language, and people’s self-image at that time. But once public perception of history has been cemented, an idea often becomes a generally accepted, almost ineradicable fact, a factoid (Dr. Marcus Junkelmann). Thus, for instance, the wide-spread notion, brought about by the film Ben Hur, namely that chained slaves and convicts rowed Roman galleys, will likely stay in people’s minds forever.

Also in German literature, books by authors like Günther Grass, Tanja Kinkel, Jörg Friedrich and Christian von Ditfurth are in high demand. The high quality of these works depends, above all, on an accurate account of historical events.

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