Media and History
Accompanying Book to the Exhibition `Myths of the Nations´ in the German Historical Museum, Berlin; Copyright: Verlag Philipp von ZabernHistorical exhibitions are in vogue. Lavishly done and well visited, they are formative of the construction of historical reality. By Monika Flacke       More ...

Die Flucht (i.e. Flight); Copyright: ARD Degeto / Conny KleinA public without the presence of the media is no longer imaginable today. The significance of virtual "memory spaces" in which recent history is brought to mind and reflected upon, is increasing commensurately.       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