Places of remembrance
Germany bears a special responsibility for the victims of National-Socialist tyranny and for the consequences of the Second World War. Since its reunification it also falls to Germany to keep alive the memory of those who suffered under the Communist dictatorship.
A memorial stone in Buchenwald concentration camp
Photo: picture-alliance / dpa
That is why the Federal Government supports a number of museums and historical sites of national significance. Examples include the German Historical Museum in Berlin and the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn.
Museums and historical sites
Foundation Haus der Geschichte
German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Germany bears a special responsibility for the victims of National-Socialist tyranny during the Third Reich and for the consequences of the Second World War.
Promoting memorial sites and memorials to Nazi crimes
Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Memorials Foundation - Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora
The German Resistance Memorial Center
House of the Wannsee-Konferenz
Saxon Memorial Foundation dedicated to the memory of the victims of political dictatorship
Topography of Terror Documentation Center
Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen
Memorial of the Dachau Concentration Camp
Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
The Federal Government attaches great importance to the reappraisal of the SED dictatorship. The Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and the Stasi Records Agency, among others, have a key role to play in that.
Institutions involved in the reappraisal of the SED dictatorship
Foundation Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
Tränenpalast at Bahnhof Friedrichstraße in Berlin