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Objects belonging to German refugees from World War II in the new Documentation Center for Displacement, Expulsion and Reconciliation July 8, 2021 in Berlin, Germany.
© GettyImages / Sean Gallup
By: Frédérique Lebel
2 min
And we talk about History with a capital H today.
We take a little height and distance, to also tell you about forgotten or unknown stories.
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And we will begin this journey in Germany, with the opening last summer of a documentation center that was controversial for a long time before seeing the light of day.
Its name: Flight, expulsion and reconciliation.
It talks about
the forced migration of 14
million Germans who had to leave territories conquered by the Third Reich
and redistributed by the Allies at the end of World War II.
A story that must be compared with the victims of the German occupation.
In Berlin,
Leo Bräuer Potier
visited him.
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To read also: A museum retracing the traumas experienced by the Germans during the war opens in Berlin
That was 170 years ago. Ireland, then a British colony, saw its potato crops wiped out by mildew. It was
the great famine
, which caused a million deaths and pushed two million Irish into exile. But how to explain, interpret this immense tragedy. Could it have been avoided? Some do not hesitate today to give this tragic episode a very political interpretation. In Dublin,
Emeline Vin
.
Many Italians have discovered the existence of this island through a fiction released last year on a major television platform.
The Isle of Roses
, created from scratch off the Adriatic coast, hosted in 1968 a project as crazy as it was protesting, but which quickly worried the authorities.
Cecile Debarge
.
And how to make History in the light of new questions, on the place of all and all the forgotten
: women, the colonized, sexual minorities or even forgotten nations.
History must reinvent itself, it is the thesis of a flagship work which was released this autumn in England by its title.
What is History
,
What is History
, simply.
In London,
Marie Billon
.
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