During the fifty years since the end of hostilities, European literary memories of the war have undergone considerable change, influenced by the personal experi

Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories re

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test. Ne

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundari

Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in wa