Reparation
On 29 October 1998, Chairman of the South-African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu (right) presents the commission’s final report to President Nelson Mandela in Pretoria. Copyright: picture-alliance / dpaThe term transitional justice describes efforts to come to terms with the consequences of violence and human rights abuses in the course of the transition from dictatorial regimes and tyrannies to democratic civil societies. By Constantin Goschler       More ...

Files, Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Copyright: picture-alliance / dpaNo nation in the world, it is said, has occupied itself so intensively with its own past as the Germans have. By Tobias Freimüller       More ...

FoundationThe Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation (Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft) was established by its founders, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Industry Foundation Initiative, in 2000.       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