Humboldt Forum and Documenta Scandal: Struggles for the German Culture of Remembrance

German remembrance policy recorded two significant events this year. This can be determined from a certain distance, which cannot be more certain. Documenta fifteen came to an end in Kassel at the end of September with its anti-Semitism scandal, which didn’t cause so much excitement abroad but all the more in Germany. A week earlier, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin opened further collection rooms, and according to its own ideas it is now complete. In this coincidence, the memory of the Holocaust and dealing with the colonial past meet.

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