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This article deals with the historiography and education of world history in Germany. While in those countries such as the U.S., Japan, China and South Korea world history curriculum is institutionally established in the secondary schools and universities, it is not the case in Germany. Although many German scholars had long developed the universal history, it contained strong euro-centrism. That is why there has been no place for the history of non-european region in the German historiography and history teaching.
Because of the globalization process in the 1990s it is demanded that German students know the history of non-european countries and it be written in history textbooks. But the German history textbooks are not up to standard of world history. They don't include the topics of the non-european civilizations to the modern epoch except for medieval Islam civilization. Apart from the history of imperialism, the history of 19th and 20th centuries is also evidently dominated by German national history. In order to develop a more globally oriented historical consciousness in the classrooms the globally conceptualized world history perspectives should be introduced.