Public Lecture Series at Universität Hamburg
Thursdays 18.30 – 20.00 h
Venue: Universität Hamburg, Hörsaal D Philturm
The Second World War ended in May 1945. In the preceding six years, previously unimaginable war crimes and excesses of violence had taken place throughout Europe under German leadership. Millions of people were racially or politically persecuted, millions were displaced during and after the war, millions were murdered. The genocide of the European Jews, the Holocaust, unfolded in the midst of these events. Many associated the end of the war with the hope for peace, the punishment of the guilty and a return to a free life. However, the experiences and events were interpreted in very different ways. The lecture series takes these different experiences and interpretations as a starting point to present various complex and sometimes contradictory attempts of coming to terms with the end of the war.
Lectures will be in German.
24.4.2025
"Aus meiner Dienstzeit". Private Fotoalben und deutsche Weltkriegserinnerung
8.5.2025
Chronique scandaleuse? 1945 und die Idee der Reparationen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
22.5.2025
Displaced. Über Lebenswege nach dem Holocaust
12.6.2025
Bangen und Hoffen. Erwartungen und Befürchtungen in der Hamburger Gesellschaft 1945
19.6.2025
Verfolgerland – ein anderer Blick auf die Bundesrepublik
26.6.2025
Kriegsende in den Dünen. Zur Mikrogeschichte eines Gewaltraums am Beispiel der Insel Langeoog
3.7.2025
Auschwitz und das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Bild: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-M1015-332, Fotograf: Otto Donath