European Memory

2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the political changes which took place in the annus mirabilis of 1989. At the time, there was a fundamental shift in the coordinates in which post-war generations had grown up. There was no longer an East or a West, but something in between – Central Europe.More ...

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the memorials of the Nazi era find themselves confronted with the ostensibly contradictory task of bringing together the divided German traditions of remembrance into a unifying culture of commemoration that will help forge the national identity without neglecting the European dimension. By Annette EberleMore ...

The European Resistance Archive publishes interviews with former members of the Resistance on the Internet. By Christian WeißMore ...

Violent demonstrations broke out in the Estonian capital of Tallinn and Russia when a Soviet war memorial was moved to a different place. By Volker ThomasMore ...