World War II
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Tourism
What did you see in Auschwitz?
26 January 20127Télérama Paris -
11 January 2012PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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Germany / Poland
Bundestag to rehabilitate Polish activists
25 May 20111PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Germany
Über alles, but nice
15 March 20112The Guardian London -
Poland/Germany
Bundestag reopens World War 2 wounds
15 February 2011PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Geopolitics
Central Europe – we need to make friends
8 December 20103Lidové noviny Prague -
History
The evolving memory of the Shoah
21 October 2010Le Figaro Paris -
World War II
Moscow parade, the winners and losers
10 May 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
8 May 20104De Volkskrant Amsterdam
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Moldova/Russia
Moscow, an invitation you can't refuse
3 May 2010PresseuropJurnal de Chisinau -
Germany
Who owns Mein Kampf?
5 February 2010PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Iraq War
Blair, blinded by the Enlightenment
1 February 20101The Independent London -
Anniversary
Auschwitz survivors poorly treated
27 January 20101PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
11 November 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
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5 October 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza
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World War 2
Warsaw and Moscow, rethinking 1939
31 August 20091Presseurop -
27 August 20091PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel
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Czech Republic
Germans return to the Sudetenland
30 July 20091PresseuropRespekt -
Ideas
Homage to three wise men
23 July 2009PresseuropThe Guardian -
Urban planning
Vauban, the revolution will not be motorised
30 June 2009The Independent London -
17 June 2009PresseuropPolska The Times
Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory? 
After a turbulent 20th century, Germany has emerged as Europe’s economic and political powerhouse. As the European Union becomes increasingly tight-knit, this major role, it seems, is one the reunified country isn't entirely eager to take on. 
The two main forces structuring Central Europe — the EU and NATO — might not go on forever. For this reason, Lidové noviny argues that the countries of the region should take action to heal the wounds left by the wars of the 20th century before they are once again caught in a geopolitical squeeze between Germany and Russia. 
The Shoah Memorial in Paris, one of the world’s largest centres for documentation on Jewish memory, continues to collect material for its archives. As one generation gives way to the next, families are more and more willing to hand over objects and documents that define their past. 
Sixty-five years after the end of the conflict, the memory of the World War II lives on in the work of new generations of historians, but also, as De Volkskrant points out, because the shoah plays a fundamental role in our European identity.
At the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair expressed no regrets over his decision to join the war in Iraq. Bruce Anderson in the Independent argues that he was driven by a typical delusion of Enlightenment thinking, that it is possible to reshape human nature and the world in the West’s image. 
On 1st September, Polish, German and Russian leaders will attend a ceremony to remember the German invasion of Poland, which triggered the start of the Second World War. But behind the scenes, Warsaw and Moscow are involved in a war of words about the responsibility of the Soviet Union in the tragic events of 1939. 
In a suburb of Freiburg, south-west Germany, a former army camp has been turned into an ecologist’s paradise. No cars, sustainable homes, with a socially homogenous profile. But is it an ideal society? Tony Paterson at the Independent is not quite sure.