Between 1942 and 1944, approximately 60,000 people were murdered at Maly Trascjanec southeast of Minsk. This site of extermination thus ranks among the largest scenes of the Shoah in the territory of the occupied Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Maly Trascjanec remained almost invisible in European memory culture for a long time. A trinational project involving the…

On October 21, 1985, “Ganz unten” (The Lowest of the Low) by Günther Wallraff was published. Almost exactly three years earlier, on October 14, 1982, another undercover reportage in “Stern” magazine had already drawn attention to the everyday racism experienced by migrants from Turkey in Germany. The following year, journalist Gerhard Kromschröder published his observations…

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 through our projects at the intersection of academic scholarship and Public History. Between September 1944 and February 1945, the northern…