Ausstellungseröffnung: Die Dritte Welt im Zweiten Weltkrieg

In the organizer's words:

More soldiers from the so-called Third World fought in the Second World War than from Western Europe - more people fell victim to it here than in Germany, Italy and Japan combined. The fascist Axis powers and the Allies recruited millions of auxiliary troops and laborers in their colonies - often by force. Large parts of the "Third World" served as battlefields and were left devastated after the end of the war.

However, as serious as the consequences of the Second World War were in the "Third World", they were long overlooked in local historiography.
they were hardly considered in local historiography for a long time. The association recherche international e.V. Köln presented a comprehensive exhibition on this topic at the NS-DOK back in 2010. This has since been shown at more than 60 locations in Germany, Switzerland, South Africa and Mozambique and will be shown again in an expanded version in Cologne on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. For the first time, artistic reflections from Africa, Asia and Oceania on the consequences of the Second World War will also be presented.

The accompanying program includes lectures, readings, theater performances and a film series with international guests as well as a hip-hop dance performance about colonial soldiers from France. You can find the complete program at: www.3www2.de