Category Archives: Public Debate

Workshop about war memorials in Hamburg

“Evangelische Akademie der Nordelbischen Kirche” is offering a workshop about dealing with war memorials in Hamburg. For more information please use the folowing link: http://www.akademie-nek.de/h/event.php?id_rec=502&PHPSESSID=8871e03ac9605791879cd6da7b283d69

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New Dispute over Holocaust Commemoration (Ukraine/Canada)

There is a new dispute over Commemorating the Holocaust going on in Canada, involving Ukraine. It is especially about comparing vs. equalizing the Holocaust and Ukrainian Nationalist involvement and the Ukrainian Famime of 1932-1933. Ukrainian Institutions in Canada protest against … Continue reading

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Article on American Muslims visiting Auschwitz Birkenau in August 2010 in German Newspaper

The German Newspaper “Die WELT” holds an article on American Muslims having visited Auschwitz Birkenau memorial in August 2010: Schmid, Thomas: “Wie amerikanische Muslime Auschwitz erleben.” In: DIE WELT 14.8.2010

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Gedenken und Erinnern in Deutschland: Der Streit um Gleichsetzung oder Differenzierung von Drittem Reich und DDR

Heute ein Artikel in der taz: Nazi ist nicht gleich Stasi In Mittelsachsen übermalte ein Rentner eine Denkmalinschrift. In seinen Augen setzt sie die beiden deutschen Diktaturen undifferenziert gleich. Ein Streit, der andauert.

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Österreich: Ö1-Radiokolleg

Radiokolleg – Erinnerungskulturen: Wie an wen wo erinnert wird eine Meldung aus edumeres

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Dancing “I will survive” in Auschwitz and other KZ-memorials

The German Newspaper “die tageszeitung” today reports on a youtube-video by an Australian artist showing her grandfather, who survived Auschwitz and Groß-Rosen, dancing to the disco-hit “I will survice” at KZ-memorial sites, and about a discussion about the adecuateness of … Continue reading

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German Historian Christian Meier on the Virtue of Non-Remembering – a review

Elisabeth von Thadden on Christian Meier (2010): Das Gebot zu vergessen und die Unabweisbarkeit des Erinnerns. Vom öffentlichen Umgang mit schlimmer Vergangenheit. München: Siedle. http://www.zeit.de/2010/24/L-P-Meier?page=all PDF: http://pdf.zeit.de/2010/24/L-P-Meier.pdf plus commentaries

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German Magazine Online on German Occupation in Scandinavia

“Der Führer ist rasend!”

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Aktuelle Debatte in German Newspaper “taz”: Holocaust-Remembrance as a religion?

Das Holocaust-Gedenken ist zu einer Art Religion geworden. Pilgerfahrt nach Auschwitz KOMMENTAR VON IRIS HEFETS in: die tageszeitung 9.3.2010

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Protected: Protocol of Preparatory Meeting of Neuengamme Seminar

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