Hands off our Erinnerungskultur!
Should Germany's official remembrance of the past just be focused on 20th dictatorships, or should it be broadened?
Dear Reader,
Since 2018 at the latest, we have known how sensitive appeals to widen the lens of Germany’s historical remembrance can be.
That was the year when former AfD leader Alexander Gauland shrugged off the Nazi era as “only a bird poo in 1,000 years of German history.”
In deploying that now infamous phrase, Gauland …
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