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Divided memory in a divided Germany

Divided memory in a divided Germany

Posted by Kirsten Fischer on 2026-07-27

There’s a personal backstory for my comparison of the post-war histories of two German concentrations camps, one in East and the other in West Germany. In 2023 I visited the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum because I was putting together a syllabus for a course that would bring students from the University of Minnesota to Germany to learn about German memorial culture. That visit led me to [...]

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