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H-Museum - Stalingrad / Volgograd 1943 / 2003
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Introduction
(by Wigbert Benz, Germany)
While the fighting
at the battle of Stalingrad in 1942/43 itself, the facts of which and
the military-strategic consequences appear to have been to a great extent
explored in relevant studies by German and Russian historians, the different
forms of commemorating the war in East and West only gradually lead
to a process of mutual understanding. Hitler’s
“Unternehmen Barbarossa” cost the former Soviet Union more
than 20 million lives. Stalingrad itself caused the death of more than
250.000 German soldiers; the human sacrifice of the Soviet Union is
estimated at half a million. This incomprehensibly great number of destroyed
life-histories with its devastation in the individual memories of millions
of relatives, the trauma of the German attack, the appalling devastation
by the Wehrmacht were not able to develop a strong Soviet identity in
accordance with the wishes of the rulers of the state. They relied upon
the final triumph: the defeat of Fascism. Heroic commemorating instead
of painful and paralyzing remembrance of the victims should enable the
state to act internally as well as externally. Stalingrad as a place
of remembrance represents the core of this heroic remembrance: a heroic
memorial complex, one kilometer long, and crowned by a 90 meter-tall
statue of Mother Homeland.
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of Stalingrad - Online Resources
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Selected
articles / specials of print and online media
Conferences
- Kolloquium
zum 60. Jahrestag der Schlacht von Stalingrad
January 30, 2003 (University of Potsdam, Germany)
- Stalingrad - What
have Germans and Russians learned 60 years later?
April 3 - 6, 2003 (University of Volgograd)
On the German side will take side: Norbert Frei (Bochum), Hans-Heinrich
Nolte (Hannover), Manfred Messerschmidt, Wolfram Wette, Gerd R. Ueberschär,
Julia Warth (all Freiburg), Winfried Vogel (Bad Breisig near Bonn),
Detelf Bald (München) and Wigbert Benz (Filderstadt). The exact
program of this international academic conference will be published
here as soon as it is available as will be a report on the essence of
the given lectures.
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