Memorial Sites of National Socialist Crimes in Poland and Germany. From Monuments of Warning through Contemporary Museums to Tourist Attractions

11.06.2015 – 13.06.2015

15:00

Oranienburg (11.06) i Berlin (12.-13.06), Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen Straße der Nationen 22 16515 Oranienburg; Collegium Hungaricum Dorotheenstraße 12 10117 Berlin

Centrum Badań Historycznych Polish Akademii Nauk in Berlin and Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten / Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen w kooperacji z Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung i Fundacją Współpracy Polish-Germanj

In 2015, 70 years have passed since the end of World War II and the liberation of Europe from Nazism. Under fundamentally different conditions, places of remembrance, museums, and monuments dedicated to Nazi crimes were established in Poland and in both German states. Their development was shaped against the backdrop of the Cold War. The system changes in the GDR and in…