Turning point in the politics of history? Ukraine, Russia and the Germans. 1990/91 until today
About the anthology
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has fundamentally changed the European security architecture. It also raises the question of whether existing ways of dealing with National Socialism in Germany and Europe are shifting in the wake of the war. What role does the memory of German occupation and extermination policies in Eastern Europe actually play in this war, the prehistory of which has often been given far too little consideration?
The authors of this volume approach these questions from different perspectives in order to examine both the Ukrainian-Russian-German relationship since the 1990s and February 24, 2022 as a possible historical-political caesura. This will shed light on the handling of mass violence in the 20th century, new forms of imperial politics, civil society initiatives, foreign policy interests and religious forms of legitimization of the current war.