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About the lecture series “War's End in Europe 1945. History, Experiences, Interpretations”
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.