Germany / Poland
Presse- und Informationsamt der BundesregierungGerman-Polish cooperation and exchange has never been as active as it is at the moment. The road, however, to this neighbourly co-existence was not an easy one and even today the relations between the two countries have to be treated like a delicate plant that needs a lot of tender loving care.       More ...

Signing of the Treaty:
The Polish Prime Minister Krzystof Bielecki (l) and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (r) are signing the German-Polish Treaty on 17 June 1991 in Bonn.
Cop: picture-alliance / dpaThe German-Polish treaty of June 17, 1991 was a consequence of the collapse of Communism during the ‘People’s Autumn’ of 1989, the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990, and the final recognition of the Oder-Neiße border by the German Federal Republic in December 1990.       More ...

The question of how to deal with the past and different cultures of memory is relevant in many countries.
A discussion on appropriate forms of remembrance has already been under way in Germany since the early 1980s.
Video-archive of interviews from eyewhitnesses of the European resistance