DossierCommemorating Liberation
On 8 May 1945, 75 years ago, Friedeburg, Keitel, and Stumpff ratified the declaration of surrender of the High Command of the German Armed Forces to the Allied Forces and the Red Army. For many, however, the war ended too late: millions of people died of hunger, persecution, torture, forced labour, in the concentration camps or in exile. This dossier offers different perspectives on liberation, a retrospective look at extermination, persecution, and war, but also on reckoning, reparations, and the politics of remembrance. In addition, the dossier addresses current and future remembrance work.
May 8, 45
Essay | 06.05.2020The “Red Light” of Yugoslav Partisan Photography
The 75th anniversary of the liberation from fascism is a time to remember one of the largest…
News | 30.04.2020Berlin, May 1945—Valery Faminsky
In Valery Faminsky’s photos, people encounter one another as humans, not as victors and defeated.
Comment | 30.04.2020Short Memories
How it got this way: fragments from German post-war history
Comment | 29.04.2020Under the Banner of Political Instrumentalization
Remarks on the current handling of World War II in Poland
Essay | 29.04.2020The Lost History of Antifa
75 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
Comment | 16.04.2020Telling Realistic Histories
Resisting National Socialism in a computer game: “Through the Darkest of Times”
Essay | 13.02.2020Concerned Citizens for Hitler
The old elites were not the only ones to support Hitler—it was also the bourgeois centre