The historian Gabriele Hammermann has headed the Dachau concentration camp memorial site since 2009. On the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp by American troops on April 29, 1945, she spoke to the SZ about the culture of remembrance during the Ukraine War and how the memorials had to react to it. Despite all the justified outrage about Putin’s war of aggression and crimes, she pleads not to throw the results of scientific contemporary
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… Read more The Russian invasion ofUkraine continues, two days after the military parade in Vladimir Poutine. A pro-Russian official in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, which has been occupied by the Russians since March, said on Wednesday that the region would ask to be annexed by the Russia. “There will be a request (addressed to the Russian president) to integrate the Kherson region as a full subject of the Russian Federation,” Kirill Stremoussov, deputy head of
Dachau concentration camp: Head of the memorial for the 77th anniversary of the liberation – Dachau
Dachau: Five survivors come to the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp – Dachau
They come to Dachau from Austria, Italy, France, Israel and the Ukraine – five survivors take part in the commemoration of the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. After a two-year break in the Corona pandemic, the events can finally take place again in attendance. However, the joy is dampened: Since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, there have been fears in Dachau for the concentration camp survivors in