The German government on Tuesday presented plans for a “German\u002DPolish House” in Berlin to serve as a memorial to Polish victims of World War II and detail…
“The knowledge about the suffering of the Poles under German occupation, the knowledge about the millions killed, murdered, is far too often missing in Germany and in Europe, especially also among the younger generation,” Roth said, according to German news agency dpa. “But precisely this knowledge is the prerequisite for developing an emphatic, dignified remembrance of the victims.”
It will give information not only about acts of war, but also show everyday life under Germany’s “six years of occupation terror” and the Polish citizens’ armed resistance, including the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Jews in 1943 and the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. On Tuesday, the culture minister presented the location of the former Kroll Opera near the German Reichstag parliament building and the Chancellery as a possible location. The Kroll Opera was used as a temporary seat for the Nazi parliament after the Reichstag burned down a month after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. It was there that Hitler gave his speech announcing Germany’s attack on Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.
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