On the 21st of October 1941, an NS-led German school opened its doors in Stockholm. At the opening ceremony, both Swedish and German officials alluded to long-standing historical connections between the two countries and described the school as a warrant for cultural exchange and Swedish-German education. The NS regime itself had a special interest in the Nordic countries in general, and Sweden in particular, as Northern Europe was imagined as an essential part of a racialized German Kulturvolk.. However, while the NS regime envisioned the establishment of a German school as an instrument of cultural propaganda, a difficult balance had to be maintained at the school. This article discusses how the school became part of NS propaganda by studying the way in which a specific NS-version of Germanness was activated and instrumentalized by NS officials and teachers between 1941-45. 

Till skillnad från flera andra texter i denna bok introducerar föreliggande kapitel ingen särskild teori eller någon särskild betydelsefull teoretiker eller forskare. Istället lyfts tre begrepp som kan användas för att studera interkulturalitet i en skolkontext. På grund av detta inleds kapitlet med en kort introduktion av begreppen mångkulturalism och interkulturalitet i en svensk utbildningskontext. Därefter beskrivs och definieras de tre analytiska begreppen: kategorisering, strategisk essentialism-disidentifikation och representation, tillsammans med den kritik som kan riktas och har riktats mot dem.