Each year there are a number of opportunities to remember the victims of the two world wars and the Holocaust. They give us occasion to consider how invaluable it is that Europe has overcome the age of catastrophies and dictatorships – and how important it is to maintain a free and democratic Europe in the future.
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Honouring fallen soldiers in Douaumont
Photo: Bundesregierung/Schulze-Vorberg
Commemorative Moments
The year 2014 has marked the hundredth anniversary of the First World War's outbreak. On this occasion, the five branches of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Geheimes Staatsarchiv, the Ibero-Amerikanische Institut, and the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung - have been presenting numerous exhibitions and events on the "original catastrophe" of the 20th century and the preceding years of artistic and technological change that heralded the modern era.