"The main exhibition took eight years to put together. The American historian Timothy Snyder called the project a 'civilisational achievement' and 'perhaps the most ambitious museum devoted to the second world war in any country'.
"But the populists who had come to power in Poland's elections two years earlier found this unbearable, preferring to promote a version of events that would airbrush real history and glorify the nation instead."
Estera Flieger at The Guardian criticizes changes at Poland's Gdańsk Museum of the Second World War.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
"It Concerns Us All"
Labels:
historians,
history,
museums,
Poland,
politics,
twentieth century,
twenty-first century,
World War II
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