Soldiers' fates. From the Battle of Budapest (1944/45) to the memorial tour "Outbreak" (2025)

From the series of events "1945. War ends - Perspectives on the end of the war and its significance today." a lecture by Prof. Dr. Krisztián Ungváry, University of Miskolc The hundred-day final battle for the capital of Hungary is one of the most devastating battles of the Second World War. The lecture sheds light on the event from the perspective of individual fates and also addresses the question of today's practices of remembrance. The focus of the series of events is the end, or rather the ends, of the Second World War 80 years ago. The plural "KriegsEnden" in the title refers not only to divergent perceptions and interpretations, continuities and ruptures or the "simultaneity of the non-simultaneous" around 1945, but also to the need to focus more strongly on perspectives from Eastern Europe and on Eastern Europe. As part of the lecture series, experts from academia and museum practice will provide a wide range of thematic insights into their latest work. A wide geographical range will also be covered, taking in both metropolitan areas and the peripheries of Poland, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Romania.