Lesebühne: Vielstimmige Erinnerung - Der 40. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes zwischen Mythos und Friedenssehnsucht

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Book presentation and discussion

The Stasi reports of 1985 also focused on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war. The victory of the Red Army over fascism in 1945 was a founding myth of the GDR. Beyond the official commemoration, the 1985 volume from the edition series "Die DDR im Blick der Stasi" (The GDR in the eyes of the Stasi ) also shows a different kind of remembrance: the churches and peace groups as well as parts of the population discussed the end of the war and relations with Moscow in many different ways. This was not surprising given the intensification of the Cold War in the early 1980s, as peace and disarmament preoccupied people in the GDR more than the memory of the Second World War. With Dr. Jörg Morré (Director Museum Berlin-Karlshorst), Prof. Dr. Daniela Münkel and Florian Schikowski (Federal Archives - Stasi Records Archive)

The book presentation is part of the event series Lesebühne.