World history: The new permanent exposition “Germany and the Soviet Union during the World War II” in the museum “Berlin – Karlhorst”

The new permanent exposition “Germany and the Soviet Union during the World War II” opened in the German-Russian Museum “Berlin - Karlhorst”. The exhibits are housed in a historic building, where on the night of 8 to 9 May 1945 was signed the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany.

It is presented over a thousand different objects, including 560 photographs. Many of the exhibits for the exhibition are provided by the Central Museum of the Armed Forces on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, as well as similar complexes of Ukraine and Belarus.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the renovated exhibition, Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Federal Republic of Germany Bernd Neumann said that such exhibitions “have documented that after the war from the enemies the Germans and the Russians have become partners”. “The special merit of the new exhibition is that it also appeals to the memory of the victims of those groups, which are still to a lesser extent a public”, - said the minister, adding that it is a mass deaths of Soviet soldiers in German captivity.

According to Bernd Neumann, “the exhibition reminds us that this will never happen again, so it is turned to the future”.