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736:(1) Zweck der unselbständigen Stiftung ist es, im Geiste der Versöhnung die Erinnerung und das Gedenken an Flucht und Vertreibung im 20. Jahrhundert im historischen Kontext des Zweiten Weltkrieges und der nationalsozialistischen Expansions- und Vernichtungspolitik und ihrer Folgen wachzuhalten.
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as well as other forced displacements, and maintains an exhibition for this purpose shown in changing locations of
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Historical Museum": Gesetz zur Errichtung einer Stiftung „Deutsches Historisches Museum“ (DHMG) vom 21. Dezember 2008 in der Fassung der Bekanntmachung vom 29.Dezember 2008 (BGBl. I Nr. 64, S. 2891)
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in any issues related to Polish-German history and at the same time supports an international net of centers dedicated to remembrance of totalitarian regimes and their victims called "European
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withdrew his initial support for the same reason, but defended
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one-sided image of the past, without historical context", and see the dangers of "de-contexualizing the past" and "ethnification of social conflicts". German-Jewish writer
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Federal Republic of Germany, when the federal government and parliament passed a law calling for the constitution of a
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is the German non-governmental head organization of various organized groups of German refugees and expellees. The federation is committed to document the
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who died in 2005. The head of the foundation ZgV since 2018 is
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