The essay ‘…Not by the German people, but in the name of the German people”.  Adenauer and the narrative of the Centre Ground has appeared in the journal Przegląd Zachodni, Issue 3 (372) 2019: 221-248.  It explores the image of National-Socialist history and ‘the Germans’ that Adenauer sketched in his statements. Full text can be found here.

An excursion to memorial sites in Ukraine scheduled for May 2020 has been cancelled due to Corona-Crisis.

From May 30th to June 2nd, 2019 the Association for Monument Research made an excursion to memorial sites in Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. They included the memorial dedicated to the annihilation of Lidice, which was razed to the ground on June 10, 1942, the Mauthausen concentration camp which was the main site of political, social and racist persecution by the National Socialist regime on Austrian territory from 1938 to 1945, the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism and the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial.

In May 2018 the Association for Monument Research made a four-day long excursion to memorial sites in Western Europe. They included the memorial sites in Bergen-Belsen, Esterwegen, Rotterdam and Friedland.

The essay Gedenkpolitik als Imagepolitik. Die Kohl-Regierung und das „Holocaust-Denkmal‘, has appeared in the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 64 (2016) 11, an English Version can be found here.

In May 2016 the Association for Monument Research made a five-day excursion to memorial sites in France. As well as various monuments and memorial sites in Paris, we visited the village of Oradour-sur-Glâne whose inhabitants fell victim to a massacre by units of the SS-Division ‘Das Reich’ in June 1944.

On 16 June 2015 Volker Wild gave a talk titled What does coming to terms with the past mean today? Notes on the meaning of monuments commemorating National Socialism. This lecture was given at the invitation of the Bielefeld branch of the Association Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie (Against Forgetting – For Democracy) and of the DGB (Trades Union) Working Group Zwangsarbeit in Bielefeld (Forced Labour in Bielefeld). It was given in connection with an exhibition about forced labour in Bielefeld with the title Unter Zwang (Under Compulsion). The text of the talk (in German) can be obtained from Volker Wild on request. Further information about the exhibition can be found on the organizers’ home page.

In May 2015 the Association for Monument Research visited the memorial sites of the extermination camps in Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec, and the cities of Warsaw and Krakow.

The essay 20 Jahre Bundesdenkmalpolitik zum Nationalsozialismus. Von der Neuen Wache zum Gedenk- und Informationsort für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen “Euthanasie”-Morde, has appeared in the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 62 (2014) 11, English version can be found here.