A documentary and memorial center on the history of World War II and National Socialism will be set up in Berlin with a special focus on the group of victims that has not been in the spotlight so far.
That is why it remained almost unnoticed by the German public that on October 9 the Bundestag made a historic decision to erect a memorial to all the victims of the German destructive war and occupation regimes in World War II. It should be a documentary, educational and memorial center in order to convey the historical context, explain the suffering that took place in Europe and Germany, and give space to the memory of the victims' descendants. The German government has until the end of 2020 to present a plan for the implementation of this decision. When we talk about World War II, the German parliament, politicians and historians use the term - German Wernichtungskrig - German destructive war, war to extinction. It is a war aimed at the complete destruction of states, peoples or ethnic groups - mass killings or destruction of livelihoods.
