Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
03.07.1997 | Disclosure of New Azaryčy Memorial
3D model of the Memorial in Azaryčy. Please click on the picture to view the model. After the liberation by the Red Army, evidence was collected in Azaryčy which was used for the Nuremberg trials. One perpetrator, General Richert, was convicted and executed in 1946,...
24.06.2021 | German Ambassador Visits Azaryčy Memorial
3D model of the Memorial in Azaryčy. Please click on the picture to view the model. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in the Republic of Belarus, Germany’s then-ambassador Manfred Huterer, accompanied by the military...
2009 | “One of the most serious crimes ever committed by the Wehrmacht against civilians”
In his 2009 study Die Herrschaft der Wehrmacht, Dieter Pohl devotes a chapter to the deporations in the Azaryčy region. He places the events in Azaryčy in the wider context of German occupation policy and the general crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in the Soviet...
21.09.2020 | “The culture of remembrance is bound by time and context”
In 2017, a Holocaust survivor living in Budapest and two joint plaintiffs filed a statement of claim with the Lüneburg Administrative Court. In it, they demanded that the monument erected in 1960 by right-wing elected officials in honor of the 110th Infantry Division...
2007 | A Blanket Saved Her Life
The Berlin-Karlshorst Museum is located in the former officers’ mess in Berlin, where the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht was signed on May 8, 1945, marking the end of the Second World War in Europe. The museum is dedicated to the history of the...