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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Seit 2023 laufen in der Aufa100 Planungen, zu den neuesten Entwicklungen der Weimar/Russia debate einen Beitrag zu leisten. In diese dreißigjährige Debatte schaltete sich der niederländische Autor eingangs als frisch graduierter Historiker ein. Anlässlich des hundertsten Todestages Friedrich Eberts wurde in seiner transnationalen Kommission, einer...

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. In the recent case of the final World War One...

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.

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.

An account of both the African and decolonised Germany's perspectives after five years of "good colonialism". In other words, the Western delineation of bad versus good masters

In contrast to the Rhine, the Danube was divided into East and West. Around its basin and on its shores, the contours of a new Europe are growing ever more visible. Never forget: Brussels is not Europe. (German title: „Das hundertjährige Friedenslegat der Habsburger“)