When cultures of remembrance clash: Contesting memorialization in Namibia’s urban spaces Analysis Namibia continues to grapple with the pervasive legacy of apartheid and colonialism. How can reconciliation look like and how can social cohesion be fostered after decades of racist oppression? By Constanze Blum
10th European History Forum: Memorials in East and Southeast Europe Forgotten – alienated – reinvented Conference report Memorials are more than memories cast in basalt and concrete; as reference points, they are sources of veneration and contempt, at the mercy of political interests and deliberate acts of manipulation. By Marion Kraske
The Controversy of Memories - 75 years after the end of the Second World War in Europe Film "Different wars: National History Textbooks on the Second World War" - this was the title of a travelling exhibition by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum. It toured 22 cities in the EU and Russia over the last four years. It showed how current textbooks for secondary schools depict the Second World War in Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and the Czech Republic. The short film accompanying the exhibition will be released on 7 May.
Division Contemporary History Dealing with historical topics in the Heinrich Böll Foundation conveys historical knowledge with the claim to understand society, politics and state constitution as historically conditioned.