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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Lucy Burns.

All this week on the program we'll be looking back at the end of the Second World War in Europe

in May 1945.

For decades after the war, the blame for Germany's wartime atrocities was laid squarely

on Hitler, his Nazi party, and the paramilitary organization, the SS.

But today I'm taking you to an exhibition in Germany in 1995

about the role of the German army, thehrmacht during the Second World War, which became a turning

point in the country's reassessment of its Nazi past. We wanted to force a debate.

We wanted to force a debate.

I knew that on this subject you really needed explosives

to blow up this wall of silence and denial.

This is historian Han is here, curator of what became known as the Wehrmacht exhibition.

There were two founding myths of the West German Republic from the very beginning in 1949.

The first one, Chancellor Ardenauer used to say it in every speech was that we are Democrats.

And that was true in as far as there was a constitution and so on, but also it wasn't true,

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