{"title": "Alte Seilschaften? Das Bundesvertriebenenministerium zwischen NS-Diktatur und Demokratie", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://buchungen.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/tickets/108", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany"], "description": "A panel discussion with a small reception afterwards about the Federal Ministry for Expellees (1949–1969), the highest federal authority responsible for the affairs of around 8 million expellees and refugees in West Germany. It is hosted by the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the Federal Archives. After welcomes from the centre's director and the president of the Federal Archives, three contemporary historians discuss under the moderation of a research associate at the centre. The topic is the role of old networks, party membership books and personal connections in the ministry, whose first minister had been a resistance fighter while his successor was deeply entangled in the Nazi system, and a new collective biography that examines these questions systematically for the first time.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alte-seilschaften-das-bundesvertriebenenministerium-zwischen-16802/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/alte-seilschaften-das-bundesvertriebenenministerium-zwischen-ns-diktatur-und", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f53612d0eee1764592f052914d3da680d6f9db2a443ec5d7d633aaa4cd797d5-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Old Cliques? The Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons between the Nazi Dictatorship and Democracy", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-05T19:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://buchungen.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/tickets/108?date=2026-11-05", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany"], "description": "A discussion about the Ministry for Displaced Persons (1949–1969), the highest federal authority responsible for the roughly 8 million displaced persons and refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a cooperation between the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation and the Federal Archives. It asks what role old cliques, party membership cards and personal networks played in the work, career progression and influence within the ministry – its first minister was a member of the Resistance, while his successor was deeply entangled in the Nazi system. After welcomes from the centre's director and the president of the Federal Archives, historians from the Institute for Contemporary History and the University of Tübingen will take part in the panel; the language is German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/old-cliques-the-federal-ministry-for-displaced-persons-betwe-11732/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/veranstaltung/old-cliques-federal-ministry-displaced-persons-between-nazi-dictatorship-and", "image": ""}, {"title": "Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation – Insights into the Documentation Centre (GER)", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T15:15:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Teilnahme kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/postwar-expulsion"], "description": "A guided tour of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation offers insight into its permanent exhibition. It looks at the causes and consequences of politically, ethnically and religiously motivated forced migrations, especially in 20th-century Europe and beyond. The focus lies on the flight and expulsion of Germans during and after the Second World War and the associated culture of remembrance. Participation is free and without registration, and the tour is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/displacement-expulsion-reconciliation-insights-into-the-docu-24402/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung-einblicke-das-dokumentationszentrum-de-41", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d8e9b44532eaf6d43f7725a405737d5b3e1ab85a16f20b36936a3410e99d8c7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht damals und heute", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["society/migration/refugees", "history/gdr"], "description": "The tandem guided tour \"Flucht damals und heute\" takes place at the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde, a museum about flight and emigration from the GDR that also serves as a transitional home for around 700 refugees. Between 1949 and 1990, around four million people left the GDR, many of them through the reception camp in West Berlin, known as the \"gate to freedom\". The tour brings two perspectives into dialogue: the historical view of the camp and a current view of the residential home's daily operations, represented by a social worker who came to Berlin in 2011 at the age of 17 and spent her first years living here herself. It also grants access to the camp's historic grounds, which are otherwise closed during regular museum operations, and takes place as part of the Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-damals-und-heute-31366/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-damals-und-heute?date=2026-11-08T14%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a2a06b8499e4401ab5a463d6f1f097ccd45382728a6b61b390bb1b7a2f946e2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flucht im geteilten Deutschland", "start": "2026-10-24T11:30:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-23T17:00:00+02:00", "place": "Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde", "address": "Marienfelder Allee 66/80, 12277 Berlin", "price": "5 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sbm-shop.de/#/product/event/81", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "A public tour of the permanent exhibition \"Flucht im geteilten Deutschland\". It is offered by the Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde and spans the arc from the decision to leave the GDR to the refugees' integration into the Federal Republic. Political developments are thereby linked with the personal experiences of those who fled or left. The tour lasts 75 minutes and is in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland-11826/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/notaufnahmelager-marienfelde/besuch/programm/flucht-im-geteilten-deutschland", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d9d7413332d86f636a6595e2305a214ceaa0eb7a59a0acac446aa924f06cf59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Von der Staatsgründung zum Sicherheitsstaat", "start": "2026-11-10T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv", "address": "Ruschestraße", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A colloquium talk titled “Von der Staatsgründung zum Sicherheitsstaat” examines the emergence and development of Syria's military and the Mukhabarat between 1946 and 1990. It is organized by the Bundesarchiv - Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv at the Stasi-Zentrale, Campus für Demokratie. Speaker Thora Pindus (Philipps-Universität Marburg) presents findings from a doctoral project, focusing on the influence of former members of the Wehrmacht and (Waffen-)SS on building and modernizing the army and intelligence services. The event takes place in hybrid form, registration by e-mail is required, and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/von-der-staatsgrundung-zum-sicherheitsstaat-67814/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/von-der-staatsgruendung-zum-sicherheitsstaat-berlin-10-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b06ac8a74cc663fca7165572f1ae56e793c31b5f48854e7e1f9d36b7c1f9497f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alltag Zwangsarbeit 1938-1945 & Baracke 13", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-03-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit", "address": "Britzer Straße 5, 12439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/forced-labour"], "description": "“Alltag Zwangsarbeit 1938-1945 & Baracke 13” is a guided tour through the former Nazi forced labour camp. It is held at the NS Forced Labour Documentation Centre and surveys forced labour during the National Socialist era. The tour looks at the 13 million men, women and children forced into labour in the German Reich and at the kinds of work they had to do.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alltag-zwangsarbeit-1938-1945-baracke-13-15416/", "official_url": "https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/de/bildung/fuehrungen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d37a3ba29b828d4856f2de792d2fb06473ce6e7e185e123d3fc5c635fc9c9d5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Posts, Reels, Stories – Fluchterfahrungen aus Jugoslawien im Netz", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://buchungen.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/tickets/109", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/media/social-media", "history/yugoslavia"], "description": "A panel evening about TikTok, Instagram and podcasts as new spaces for voices of people with a Yugoslavian history of flight. Influencer Fata Hasanović, journalist and podcaster Krsto Lazarević and scholar Dr. Eva Tamara Asboth speak, moderated by journalist and podcaster Simone Gaul, after a welcome by director Dr. Roland Borchers. They share memories, explain war, flight and expulsion, and talk about consequences that pass down through generations. The discussion also asks where social media create solidarity and exchange and where disinformation and nationalist narratives begin to spread.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/posts-reels-stories-fluchterfahrungen-aus-jugoslawien-im-net-20486/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/posts-reels-stories-fluchterfahrungen-aus-jugoslawien-im-netz", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a48662c5de4eccf42201784e7936638a6daf0c1df413d414a57b23627b94d897-600.webp"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.webp"}, {"title": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lesung & Gespräch mit Friedrich Burschel zu PRESENT PAST. Wie Nachfahren ihre NS-Familiengeschichte erforschen (empfohlen ab 16 Jahre)", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Die gute Seite", "address": "Richardplatz 16, 12055 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://dieguteseiteberlin.buchhandlung.de/shop/article/57157258/present_past.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A reading and conversation with author Friedrich Burschel, who talks about his own family research into the National Socialist era. At the centre is the volume „Present Past“, in which ten descendants describe how they investigated their family's Nazi past and how they deal with what they found. Burschel, who works on anti-fascism at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, contextualises the stories and then invites an audience discussion on memory politics. The event is part of the autumn series 2026 of the Neukölln bookshops against right-wing populism and racism.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lesung-gesprach-mit-friedrich-burschel-zu-present-past-wie-n-48498/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a49c27e608476b4c56a6c9195696c4be5a36311623fceb5d740b3742f4278648-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte", "start": "2026-11-09T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "„Grenzen, Gewalt, Geschichte“ is a free themed tour through selected exhibition rooms of the museum presenting rare objects from its collection that illustrate German division, flight and violence. The tour spans from a family's flight into Reformed exile during the confessional split of the Holy Roman Empire to a border stone of a city divided after 1914 on the German-Dutch border. Its highlight is the original diary of the student Peter Rutzen from 1963, which traces the dangerous attempt to dig an escape tunnel under Bernauer Straße. The tunnel was betrayed to the Stasi before anyone could flee, leading to numerous arrests in East Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-24447/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/grenzen-gewalt-geschichte-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cb7898919d22729568409b8beaf050bbd4ca5664a4e33046a02a34e062b01c5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kontinuitäten rechter Gewalt – 15 Jahre Selbstenttarnung des NSU", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zentrum für Demokratie", "address": "Michael-Brückner-Str. 1/ Spreestraße, 12439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/far-right", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "An evening devoted to the question of the continuity of right-wing terror, in which examples are used to make connections visible. It is hosted by the Zentrum für Demokratie Treptow-Köpenick together with Partnerschaften für Demokratie Schöneweide and Treptow-Köpenick, InteraXion-Willkommensbüro für Migrant:innen, the Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit, the Museen Treptow-Köpenick and the Bezirksamt Treptow-Köpenick – Politische Bildung. The event works with a method from the Initiative BiLan, which gives both those affected and people in solidarity a voice on selected events of right-wing terror and lays bare the consequences for those affected. It is part of the series 'Von der Geschichte zur Gegenwart – Historische und politische Bildungsarbeit in Treptow-Köpenick'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kontinuitaten-rechter-gewalt-15-jahre-selbstenttarnung-des-n-50252/", "official_url": "https://zfdtk.de/kontinuitaeten-rechter-gewalt-04-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e6056789515e14efa11c424aae2b2df5ba788f895b00e6adad7fcf5eb9862220-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zu warm für die DDR? – Queeres Leben zwischen Anpassung und Emanzipation - Vortrag von Peter Rausch | Queer Monday", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek", "address": "Bizetstraße 41, 13088 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/konzerte/festivals/biennale-2027/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "society/queer"], "description": "A lecture as part of the 'Queer Monday' series, in which the Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek meets the Sonntagsclub. It is given by Peter Rausch, co-founder of the GDR's first gay-lesbian emancipation group (HIB) and of the Sonntags-Club e. V., who still works as a contemporary witness for queer history. The lecture looks at the GDR's four decades and traces the development of homosexuality, homophobia, emancipation and sexual culture chronologically. Afterwards there is time for questions, discussion and conversation, and everyone interested is welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zu-warm-fur-die-ddr-queeres-leben-zwischen-anpassung-und-ema-2579/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=290828&ls=20&c=409", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bdd61acbf68f63db7b281228cfefea6e3f2f1d896d867e77dd66b5bdf9c049d0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Auf Signal… in den Tod", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A talk on the deportation of Jews from the Moabit freight station during the Nazi era. Andreas Szagun, a former railway worker who has studied the topic since 1996, discusses the military background of the deportation tracks and the Reichsbahn's thoroughly organised involvement in the Shoah. The creation of the memorial site is also addressed. The event accompanies the exhibition by the association Sie waren Nachbarn e.V. in the display case in front of the Tiergarten town hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-signal-in-den-tod-22285/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/auf-signal-in-den-tod/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce400ebd39f450db110e2fd764c943bdbfa89f5b6db1c8270813e2766ba40fef-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nach 1945", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Jüdisches Museum", "address": "Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin", "price": "6 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.jmberlin.de/events/473/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/postwar-germany"], "description": "This is a public guided tour at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The tour presents the permanent exhibition with a focus on the historical period after 1945. Topics include restitution and „Wiedergutmachung“, the relationship between Germany, Israel and Jews in Germany, and waves of Jewish immigration and emigration. The museum building's iconic architecture is also part of the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nach-1945-12090/", "official_url": "https://www.jmberlin.de/nach-1945-oeffentliche-fuehrung-auf-englisch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5995f358930c78fa8562efa3c8d55453240cf22a6b0433f8d99718c5beae1fd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Alltag von Zwangsarbeiterinnen und Zwangsarbeitern im Nationalsozialismus", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit", "address": "Britzer Straße 5, 12439 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://rausgegangen.de/events/kunstgesprache-83/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/forced-labour"], "description": "A tour through the former Nazi forced labour camp gives an overview of forced labour under National Socialism. Who were the 13 million men, women and children forced to work in the German Reich? What work did they have to do and how were they treated? A visit to the restored „Baracke 13“ conveys an impression of how people lived and shows that forced labour was part of everyday life for Germans.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alltag-von-zwangsarbeiterinnen-und-zwangsarbeitern-im-nation-32653/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4eb7ad9b9227e2d70fb32dadf4e1bf0b03c7cc6b47738598d6fcefe4aa440667-1200.webp"}]}