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Visiting programme in Munich – White Rose Foundation and Center for the History of National Socialism

As part of the visiting programme “Peace and Exchange in Europe and Northeast Asia – remembering, reconciliation, exchanges”, the delegation visited sights and talks in Munich, touching topics such as raising awareness of the past during the national socialist times in Germany.

As part of the visiting programme “Peace and Exchange in Europe and Northeast Asia – remembering, reconciliation, exchanges”, a delegation visited different cities and sights in Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland. The goal of the trip is to promote the dialogue of reconciliation and peace in Europe and Northeast Asia. The duration of the visiting programme was from the 26th of May till the 1st of June. This part of the trip included the reappraisal of Germanys nationalist history.

 

In Munich the programme was organized by the HSF Munich office, which started on the 28th of May and lasted till the departure on the 30th of May. Specific highlights of the trip in Munich was the visit to the White Rose Foundation on the 29th of May. The White Rose Foundation’s task is to remember and teach about the resistance against the National Socialist dictatorship, honoring its protagonists and promoting civil courage, personal responsibility, and democratic awareness. This also includes taking a position against right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism, and racism. The foundation was founded in 1987 by survivors and family members of the original resistance group. They get their name from the “Leaflet of the White Rose”, leaflets distributed by the Scholl siblings who were detained 1943 by the Nazi regime. Nowadays the white rose is a symbol of resistance against the Nazi dictatorship.

 

The next visit was to the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, which is located on the site of the former “Brown House” – the former Nazi Party headquarters. The exhibition of the center takes a critical approach to the history of the sire and focuses on raising awareness of how the impact of the Nazi era extends right up to the present day.

 

Members of the delegation were Dr. Seliger (Country representative HSF Korea), Nyambayar Purevsuren (Researcher at National Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia: Economic Analyst at Parliament Television of Mongolia, from Mongolia), Hanna Suh (Research Fellow at CINAP; Committee Advisory Member at CBCK, from South Korea), Dr. Seiko Mimaki (Concurrent Researcher at Center for Transimperial History, from Japan), and Prof. Meng Hong (Professor for German politics, society and culture at Remin-University Beijing, from China).

We want to especially thank the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich for helping organize this part of the visiting programme.

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