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The Evolution of the Memorialization of Babyn Yar under the Soviet Union and Independent Ukraine
By Sophie Sacilotto Babyn Yar monument. February 10, 2018. No changes made. Wikimedia Commons. View license here. Note on Translation *varies depending on the source Introduction On 19 September 1941, the Wehrmacht, German army, entered Kyiv, the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the largest Soviet city to fall under the Nazi occupation…
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Mangled Memory: Remembrance of the Nazi Regime in the German Democratic Republic
Cover photo: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Berlin, Palast der Republik — um 1990 — 2” / CC BY-SA 4.0 By Aviva Gomes-Bhatt From 1949 until 1990, Germany was divided into the Western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). Ideologically separated by the proverbial Iron Curtain, each state had to grapple with reconstruction and usher itself…
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Emergence from the Periphery – Vol. XIV