264 265 These events are remembered through monuments and street names, in exhibitions, literary texts, films and photographs. For a long time, the very idea of establishing a commemorative site for displacement and expulsion was politically highly controversial. The opening of the Documentation Centre Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in the capital in 2021 put an end to this debate. One section of the Permanent Exhibition deals with the memory of displacement and expulsion and shows how official remembrance is practised, how it operates within groups and how personal stories and experiences are passed on in families from one generation to the next. Commemorating displacement and expulsion after the Second World War is an integral part of Germany’s cultural memory. < CLOSE UP INTO A DISPLAY CASE Household items from the Altvater Heimatstube in Gärtringen, Baden-Würtemberg (Germany), one of several such privately-run local museums now closed. The Altvater mountains/Hrubý Jeseník are part of the Sudeten range in Czechia.
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