On August 01, 1914 – the day of the First World War or the Great War beginning, as often called it in the United Kingdom, the United States, France and a number of countries of the world. The civilization conflict actually introduced the arrival of the new 20th century. Despite millions of victims, destroyed cities, villages, and, most importantly, fate people experience war did not become a fuse before future tragedies. After two decades, humanity, with the will of totalitarian dictators and frank indifference to most countries of the democratic world, has grown in another madness – World War II. It surpassed any idea of the boundaries of evil, violence and cruelty.

On October 22, 2020 “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies together with the Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum with the support of the Consulate General of Germany in Donetsk / Office in Dnipro organized a Round table “Ukraine and Germany in world wars: images and approaches to memory policy”. Participation in the Round table took leading historians of our country.

Today we offer to your attention video performances devoted to the aspects of the First World War:

Valeriia Lavrenko, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University; Dmytro Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum (Dnipro)

“Images of the Germans of 1914-1917 in propaganda and consciousness of the population of sub-Russian Ukraine”

Nataliia Venger, doctor of historical sciences, professor

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (Dnipro)

“Mennonite-Lutheran community of Katerynoslav in the conditions of the First World War and the Ukrainian Revolution”

Vitalii Soloviyov, candidate of historical sciences

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (Dnipro)

“First World in Museum Interpretation in Ukraine and Europe”