- Famine
- German hunger
- This chapter paper comparatively investigates how national periods of hunger are currently (2010 - today) integrated in secondary education in four European countries that share a history of hunger: Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany. These cases have been selected because they encompass four hunger periods of the nineteenth and twentieth century that had a large impact on Western European Societies: the Great Irish Famine of 1845-4950, the Spanish Hunger Years of 1939-1952, the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45, and post-war German hunger in the years 1945-46. Furthermore, these case studies are particularly relevant for comparative study, as all four hunger periods share similarities but also have substantial differences.