Perspectives

5 October 2026

• Editors

Voices & Positions

Relief by Frans Huygelen, In Memory of Dinant, c. 1927, bronze © DHM

“Working with collections and researching individual objects is essentially about understanding the historical circumstances in which they were created.”

27 July 2026

• Editors, Brigitte Reineke

Research

A Brief History of the Potato: from the highlands of Peru to the dining tables of Prussia

29 May 2026

• Dorlis Blume

Nature and German History

Women’s Voices in the Street: SPD speech records in the 1928 election campaign

5 March 2026

• Anna-Lena Almstedt

History today

[Translate to English:] Kuratorin Julia Voss spricht auf einem Podium. Sie trägt einen schwarzen Blazer und hat lange blonde Haare. Im Hintergrund ist das Plakatmotiv zur Ausstellung mit einem Wolf zu sehen.

Opening speech by Curator Julia Voss on the Exhibition “Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Power”

14 November 2025

• Julia Voss

Nature and German History

A crowd on the Champs-Élysées; several tanks are driving down the street.

Only on 8 May? Days of liberation in Europe

25 June 2025

• Axel Bangert

History today

Soviet army on its way from Vienna to Berlin

Only on 8 May? Days of liberation in Europe

28 May 2025

• Alfons Adam

History today

What’s that for? The first rainbow flag on the Reichstag

21 July 2023

• Julia Franke

History today

The Race for the Atomic Bomb

28 February 2023

• Takuma Melber

Voices & Positions

[Translate to English:] Die Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie zeigt Hannah Arendt an der University of Chicago, 1966

Hannah Arendt: Only within the Limits of Nature is Freedom Possible

14 May 2020

• Maike Weißpflug

Voices & Positions

Schwarz-weiß Fotografie mit Kindern in einem Klassenzimmer, Blick auf die Tafel auf der die Lehrerin schreibt

Why Are School Lessons in Germany 45 Minutes Long?

15 August 2018

• Robert Kluth

History today

Queer History

3 May 2018

• Florian Wieler, Katja Hauser

History today

Leaflets against Dictatorship – The ‘White Rose’ and 18 February 1943

19 February 2018

• Thomas Jander

History today

Plakat der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD) zur Wahl der verfassungsgebenden Nationalversammlung, mit dem Appell an die Frauen, die SPD zu wählen, die die Gleichberechtigung der Frauen erkämpft hat

Equal Rights, Equal Duties – Women’s Suffrage in Germany

20 September 2017

• Editors

History today

Iconoclasm and Reformation

8 August 2017

• Editors

History today

A field post letter from Private Fritz Baedeker, written from his quarters in Schöllschitz to his mother and siblings, recounting his experiences in the Battle of Königgrätz

Baedeker: From Field Post Letters to Travel Guides

13 July 2017

• Thomas Jander

History today

Historic promotional poster for the "International Exhibition for Travel and Tourism," Berlin, 1911. A well-dressed man in a yellow coat and flat cap, smoking a pipe and carrying a suitcase, walks in front of a stylized railway station. The text announces the exhibition from April 1 to June 20 at the exhibition halls by the Zoological Garden.

The Rise of Tourism

8 March 2017

• Hasso Spode

History today

The Warsaw Genuflection: Willy Brandt's Historic Gesture

7 December 2016

• Editors

History today

The Year without a Summer: How Europe descended into Climate Chaos

5 December 2016

• Editors

History today

Alexander von Humboldt and the ascent of Chimborazo

17 November 2016

• Editors

History today

The History of telling the Time

28 October 2016

• Editors

History today

A Magic Glow: The electrification of Germany

25 August 2016

• Editors

History today

[Translate to English:] Handgefertigte Besteckgarnitur für zwölf Personen aus dem Besitz der Herzöge von Anhal

A Matter of Course!? Why forks were once seen as tools of the devil

17 August 2016

• Editors

History today

Puff by puff: How cigarettes were extinguished from public life

25 July 2016

• Editors

History today

[Translate to English:] Portrait Edward Kissi

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Edward Kissi on the comparison between colonialism and national socialism

9 October 2026

8 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Stefanie Middendorf

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Stefanie Middendorf on the comparison between colonialism and national socialism

9 October 2026

7 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Martin Thomas

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Martin Thomas on the question of whether there is a connection between colonial and National Socialist violence

9 October 2026

8 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Leslie James

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Leslie James about colonial fascism

9 October 2026

6 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Emma Kuby

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Emma Kuby about colonial and Nazi camps

9 October 2026

8 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Mark Roseman

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Mark Roseman about racism and anti-Semitism

9 October 2026

6 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Wendy Lower

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Wendy Lower about conquest, settlement and transformation in National Socialism

9 October 2026

6 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Michelle Moyd

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Michelle Moyd about collaboration between coercion and conformity in colonialism

9 October 2026

6 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Natalya Vince

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Natalya Vince about resistance in colonialism

9 October 2026

8 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Ulrich Herbert

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Ulrich Herbert about forced labour

9 October 2026

7 Min.

Controversial Kinship

[Translate to English:] Portrait Jürgen Matthäus

Perspectives and Positions. Interview with Jürgen Matthäus about visibility, images and knowledge of crime

9 October 2026

6 Min.

Controversial Kinship

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