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It may be surprising that future is a topic in history textbooks. Between 1950 and 1995 almost every history textbook of the last grade in secondary schools in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic includes parts describing the future. Furthermore, the analysis shows that these elements tell from other textbook parts by their semantic and narrative structure. This result leads to the question how (future) narrations find it's way in history textbooks. A detailed study explores the elements of producing a textbook: writing and correcting the texts by authors and publishers, working on textbooks in publishing houses and checking the authorization in ministries of education.