Gelungene Versöhnung und offene Reparationen? Warum der Zweite Weltkrieg noch immer zwischen Deutschland und Polen steht

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Lecture and discussion with PD Dr. Gregor Feindt (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz)

German-Polish relations have undergone a significant change. While in the 1990s the idea of successful reconciliation dominated mutual perceptions in both countries, today demands for new compensation and reparations are being voiced in Poland. Gregor Feindt shows that this is not just a sudden change in policy. Rather, the explanation seems to lie in how Germany and Poland dealt with the crimes and consequences of the Second World War and in the history of reparation, compensation and reconciliation.

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Anke Hilbrenner (HHU Düsseldorf)

PD Dr. Gregor Feindt has been a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History since April 2014. He studied Eastern European and Modern History and Slavic Studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and, as part of a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, History at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His dissertation on political thought in East Central European samizdat at the University of Bonn was awarded the Fritz Theodor Epstein Prize 2014 by the Association of Eastern European Historians and the Johannes Zilkens Doctoral Prize 2015 by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. In the 2015/2016 academic year, Gregor Feindt held the Junior Professorship for the History and Culture of East Central Europe with a focus on Poland at the University of Bremen. In 2024, he habilitated at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.

An event organized by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf at the Gerhart Hauptmann House