Emperor Celebrates His 66th Birthday: Reflecting on a Year of Memorial Journeys
Emperor Naruhito of Japan will turn 66 years old, marking his birthday with public celebrations and reflections on his memorial journeys over the past year.
Podcast 'In All Calm': 'We Find Colonial Sites at Every Corner'
The German government has proposed a new concept for commemorating NS crimes and the SED dictatorship, but the mention of German colonialism has been removed from the new memorial site concept by the current cultural minister.
AI Fakes on Social Media: False Images from the Holocaust
The number of AI-generated Holocaust images on Facebook and TikTok is rapidly increasing, prompting warnings from memorial sites while platform operators respond sluggishly, raising concerns for collective memory culture.
Protest Against Fake Concentration Camp Images: 'Instrumentalized for Profit'
Memorial sites are urging social media operators to combat AI-generated fakes as a problem with historical photos emerges.
Artificial Intelligence: 'These Posts Devalue the Work of Memorial Sites'
The rise of AI-generated images and videos falsely depicting scenes from concentration and extermination camps is alarming historians and staff at historical-political education sites, prompting memorials and initiatives to fight back against this misinformation.
Memory Politics: "The Places Where the Violence Was Planned Are in Germany"
The German government's official memory policy, outlined in the 'Memorial Sites Concept,' has so far focused on Nazi and GDR dictatorship, with new efforts to include colonial crimes initiated by former Culture Minister Claudia Roth and now revised by her successor Wolfram Weimer.