Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War 1941-1945

A permanent exhibition about the war of extermination against the Soviet Union

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  Blick in die Dauerausstellung "Deutschland und die Sowjetunion im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1941-1945"

• Blick in den Themenraum "Die Sowjetunion im Krieg"

• Blick in den Themenraum "Die Anti-Hitler-Koalition"

• Blick in die Dauerausstellung des Museums Berlin-Karlshorst

The Second World War began on 1 September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland. It ended in Europe on May 8, 1945, and in Asia on September 2, 1945. Never before were more people killed and greater destruction wrought in a war. This applies in particular to the war of conquest and extermination that the German Reich waged against the Soviet Union from 22 June 1941 onwards.

The permanent exhibition documents this war from the perspective of both the German and the Soviet actors. The territories occupied by the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe were the territory where the murder of European Jews began. But German warfare and occupation rule also included other crimes such as the mass deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in German custody or the planned starvation of millions of civilians. In addition to these aspects, the exhibition also focuses on the consequences of the Second World War that reach into the present day.

Runtime: from April 2013

Takes place here:

• Museum Berlin-Karlshorst