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75 Jahre Kriegsende – Culture of remem­brance in Oldenburg

May 3, 1945 was a turn­ing point in the lives of Oldenburg’s citi­zens in many re­spects. After a long period of depri­va­tion and a life with­out pros­pects for the future, this date marked both the end and the be­gin­ning, cer­tain­ty and new un­cer­tain­ty, relief and also fear. What was a de­feat for the fanati­cal sup­port­ers of the Nazi regime was a day of cel­ebra­tion for the many prisoners of war, forced laborers and op­pressed vic­tims of the Third Reich. For the ma­jor­ity of citi­zens of Olden­burg, this event was a lib­era­tion, de­spite the un­cer­tain­ty of what lay ahead. 

To mark the 75th anni­ver­sary of the end of war in Oldenburg, we de­signed and real­ized an exhi­bi­tion in the his­tor­ic villa of the Oldenburg City Museum. Through frag­ments of memory brought to­gether like a mosaic – in the form of texts, letters, news­paper arti­cles as well as photo­graphs, film and audio docu­ments – the exhi­bi­tion pres­ented a multi-lay­ered and un­ex­pec­ted pic­ture of the post-war period in Oldenburg. 

The juxtaposition of sub­jec­tive, per­son­al memo­ries of pres­ent and his­tori­cal docu­ments opened up a multi­tude of questions – did indi­vid­ual memo­ries of the events of that day change? What sig­nifi­cance has the date of the end of the war had over the past 75 years up to the pres­ent day? Has there been a change in the public culture of re­mem­brance? Is this day still meaning­ful for our soci­ety today?

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Stadtmuseum Oldenburg

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Beim Handelsmuseum 9
D–28195 Bremen

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