One year after the unprecedented massacre of Babi Yar, the village population of Kortelisy was slaughtered. Westerners' culture of remembrance was shaped by "Lidice and Oradour-sur-Glane".

In September 1936, as the Nazi Party had been in power since three-and-a-half years, former British PM David Lloyd George, the secret leader of the 1919 Paris Conference and the evil genius of the Versailles diktat, went on a nearly month-long visit to Germany.

Seit dem Ende des ersten Jahrhundertgedenkens 2014 – 2019, dessen Abschlussjahr in Europa spärlich begangen wurde, enthalten die Webseiten des Weimarer Republik e.V. (siehe Bild) eine Liste der Kanzler der ersten deutschen Republik.

According to the splendid eyewitness report from 1940 (!), a window for diktat revision was opened in the economic crisis year 1931.(1) Who or what declined on it?

On 11 August 1929, the German republic turned ten (1919 – 1929). The roaring twenties would soon end in a Paris/Versailles precooked tragedy. Did Germans celebrate the Weimar jubilee?

At first sight, the story of the first NSDAP-mayor does not seem interesting. Who cares about the effort. Obviously, Mr Franz Schwede would be followed by many more.

Five years after ‘Dawes’ 1924, another American financier joined the British, alongside the Entente partner, in managing their designs that made up the lion's share of the Treaty and 'League of Versailles'. According to Owen D. Young's follow-up to the expiring Dawes Plan, the German democracy were to pay huge indemnities until 1988.(1)

In the eight year of the Versailles order, the League Against Imperialism was founded. This organisation was obviously a reaction to the 🇬🇧-led League of Nations.(1) In 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson provided the idea for the "League of Versailles", as it would not be positively termed by the League seat-hosting Swiss: Bund von...

Seven years after the stillborn League of Nations, the Entente authors of the Versailles diktat stage the accession of the Weimar Republic as a member. Welcome with the club! Formally, Germany's membership means the end of its exclusivity.

At our first symposium, January 25, 2021, we launched the call for the establishment of a new common commemorative day: Let us celebrate and commemorate "a century of decolonisation", in German: die Hundertjahrfeier der Entkolonialisierung. On December 15, 2021, the call was submitted to the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Knowledge of Belgian-French occupations of Western Germany seems to be widespread. Particularly, because this "inversed Alsace-Lorraine" history covered both sides of the Rhine. In order to understand Germany's manifold grievances, the British occupation should be taken a close look at. It lasted longer than the world war.

The commission intends to celebrate its first lustrum (March 19th, 2025) with a book publication. This bilingual anthology will be published with an academically renowned house.

Apart from a few exceptions such as Ireland, it may be argued that, since January 1919, the West or Atlantic Europe has time and again overplayed its hand. A pattern emerges from its post-war approaches of the continental other.(1) For many years, the red lines of both Germany, in 1919 and thereafter, and Russia, in the 1990s and after, were...

An extended English-language transcript as well as extension of the Aufa💯 founding manifesto is expected to be published. If the editors of an academic journal were to decline, we consider to regard as a a Leitartikel for the projected lustrum book.

Im Sommer 2024 lud mich die Universität Krems ein, zum geplanten Sammelband „Koloniales Erbe in der Geschichtskultur“ beizutragen. De Bourgraafs Essay heißt: Vice Versa Versailles. The ignored decolonisation

Im Gegensatz zu den Niederlanden, die im Mai 1940 von der deutschen Armee überfallen und besetzt wurden, zog Schweden aus seiner Neutralität einen überaus nachhaltigen Nutzen. Diese durchaus ergiebige Position wurde bis ins nächste Jahrhundert beibehalten. In der globalen Geschichtsschreibung wurde Schwedens bündnisfreie Außenpolitik nie ernsthaft...

Im Jahr 2023 liefen bei der Aufa100 Planungen, einen Beitrag zu den neuesten Entwicklungen der Weimar/Russia debate zu leisten. In diesen nunmehr dreißigjährigen Diskurs schaltete sich der niederländische Aufa100–Gründervater, damals ein frisch graduierter Historiker, von Anfang an ein. Anlässlich des hundertsten Todestages Friedrich Eberts, am 28....

In 1915, if a world war had not broken out, the centenary of the Battle of Waterloo (1815) would have certainly been organised. Imagine the following situation when it had been. None of the other combatant nations sides with the British party as the event's organiser close to Belgium's capital. As a matter of fact, in the recent case of...

According to its mission statement, Aufa100 focuses on the history and memory of the final stages of World War One as well as the (first) post-war order. The warlike events of our own time, however, cause us to return to the war's fore-end.