1 protagonists 1.1 perpetrators 1.2 victims 1.3 other protagonists 1.4 individual complexity protagonists perpetrators perpetrators referred ‘nazis’, ‘germans’ , ‘fascists’. individuals commonly named include hitler, himmler, heydrich, höss , eichmann. striking extent hitlercentrism pervades textbook narratives of holocaust, hitler functioning moral repository event, embodied in portraits of hitler, excerpts mein kampf , attribution of sole responsibility hitler in such phrases, found in russian textbooks, ‘hitlerian aggression’ or ‘policy of hitler-germany’. contrast, textbooks in france , germany marginalize role of hitler in favour of explanation of event result of plural causes. victims victims named jews , ‘gypsies’ in textbooks countries, while other groups of victims, such slavs, people disabilities, political opponents , homosexuals, named less frequently. other categories of victims named, example, ‘black victims’ or ‘black people’ in south african, rwandan , indian textbooks....