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Osnabrücker Mitteilungen Vol. 130 published | NGHM team represented once again

In December, the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück reported on its blog about the publication of the latest volume of the Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. In this year’s edition, the Research Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research is represented twice. Both contributions address central questions of social exclusion, domination and counter-action in the…

January 9, 2026
NGHM asks | Where can memorial sites for Displaced Persons actually be found in Germany?

Why this question? After liberation in May 1945, between 6.5 and 11 million “Displaced Persons” (DPs) were located in the territory of the western occupation zones of Germany. This category included former forced labourers, concentration camp prisoners, prisoners of war, as well as other persons uprooted by the war and Nazi persecution. Jewish survivors of…

November 21, 2025
Research Revisited: Digital Exhibitions on the Hürtgen Forest Conflict Landscape

In the Research Revisited section, the NGHM team presents completed research projects and their results in an informal series. We begin with a retrospective look at digital exhibitions that we have developed in recent years within our projects at the intersection of academic research and Public History. Between September 1944 and February 1945, the northern…

October 14, 2025
There and Back Again | Excursion to the ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage Hannover

Between Escape Room and Memory Culture: Right-wing Extremism Then and Now. An Approach at the ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage An Excursion Report by Manuel Büchner and Leonie Güneri Right-wing extremist tendencies and anti-democratic positions are no longer a marginal phenomenon; they manifest themselves in social debates, online, and in many everyday situations. For this reason, it is…

August 14, 2025