European and Polish at the Same Time
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
After months of contention, the Museum of the Second World War opened in Gdansk on 23 March 2017. The exhibition presents impressive objects, which are persuasively show-cased. They put the everyday life of civilians and soldiers at the centre of focus and explain Hitler’s and Stalin’s mass crimes in the context of the world war. The museum points to a new way for European remembrance.
(Osteuropa 1-2/2017, pp. 3–12)