![]() ![]() ![]() All these dates mark cornerstones in public memory of contemporary Europe, and strongly affected the global power structure. This year, we commemorate the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the landing of the American troops on the coast of Normandy in 1944, and the breakdown of the DDR regime and the Wall in 1989. The remembrance of three significant dates in modern history brings memories to the foreground of at whose expenses and through which abhorrent lessons the world we live in today came into being. 2014 represents the janus-faced character of the modern era, where life-changing innovations evoked alongside life-terminating modern warfare. ![]() 1 2014 is not just a year like any other: it carries the commemorative weight of crisis, war, and lost generations, and, at the same time, of liberation, freedom and new beginnings. ![]()
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