The museum creates a space at the historic location of the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht on 8 May 1945 where a critical analysis of history and how it is remembered, where learning and encounters, and where understanding between Germans and Russians can take place.
Museum
We are the German-Russian Museum, located at the historic site of the surrender of the German Armed Forces on 8 May 1945 in Berlin-Karlshorst, a place where two former wartime enemies jointly recall some of their common history. We are a so-far unique bilateral institution sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Russian Federation. We are the only museum in Germany with a permanent exhibition recalling the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. Along with the genocide of European Jewry and the murder of other populations, this war is part of the large complex of Nazi crimes to which millions fell victim through systematic extermination.
The Historic Location
World War II came to an end in Europe with the act of unconditional surrender which took place in our building. From 1945 to 1949 the former officers’ mess of the German Armed Forces’ Pioneer School served as the seat of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. After being used for various purposes by the Soviet military, a Soviet surrender museum opened in 1967 and existed until 1994.
German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
After the German-Soviet agreement on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Germany, both sides together decided already in 1990 to jointly commemorate at this location the historic event which ended World War II and Nazi rule. The painful meaning this war had for both countries led to the so far unique establishment of a museum in which former wartime enemies jointly recall the war. The museum is supported by a board of trustees representing both partners.
The items exhibited in the former surrender museum formed the basis for the new exhibition; museums in both countries and private individuals contributed much additional material. Documentary evidence conveying important information in texts and images complements the display of historical originals. Film and acoustic material round out the presentation.
The museum was opened on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe on 10 May 1995.
Since that date the museum has offered its visitors not only a permanent exhibition. Numerous events like the annual functions on 8 May (“Remembering the Peace”), discussions, film series, music performances, readings, scientific conferences, and participation in Berlin’s “Long Night at the Museums” round out the profile of the museum also as a place for encounters, (not only) between Germans and Russians.
Special short-term exhibits, including two to three put together by the museum in-house each year, provide an additional opportunity to go deeper into specific questions and aspects of the history of the war and German-Soviet relationships. An exhibition catalog (usually a German-Russian diglot) is published to accompany these special exhibits.
Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II
The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 with the German attack on Poland. It ended on 8 May 1945 in Europe and on 2 September 1945 in Asia. Never before did a war cause the death of more people and more destruction. This is especially true for the war of conquest and annihilation led by the German Reich against the Soviet Union starting on 22 June 1941. The permanent exhibition documents this war from the perspective of both parties, German and Soviet. The territory occupied by the Wehrmacht was where the murder of European Jews began. But German warfare and occupation rule was also responsible for other crimes, like the mass death of Soviet prisoners of war in German custody or the planned starvation of millions of civilians. The consequences of World War II are also explored in the exhibition. They continue to the present day.
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