Confronting the Past in 2018. World War II Monuments in Central and Eastern Europe


18.05.2018
10:00
Szczecin, al. Papieża Jana Pawła II 22 a
prof. dr hab. Jörg Hackmann

The 2016 law banning communist and other totalitarian propaganda led to a new wave of reckoning with the past, at the centre of which – since autumn 2017 – stand monuments commemorating the victory over the Nazi regime in World War II. In contrast to the simplifications often seen in public debates, these monuments…