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Germany’s wilful ignorance is hurting Ukraine

11 May 2022

1:00 AM

11 May 2022

1:00 AM

Berlin, Germany

Germans have a complex relationship with their Erinnerungskultur, or ‘culture of memory’. Whenever the word appears, it almost invariably refers to how the country thinks about its difficult past. Determined never to forget the horrors of the Nazis, Germans have spent decades reflecting on the evil that their forbears unleashed upon the world.

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