The contrasting approaches taken by different countries interested student photographer Marc Beckmann, who comes from Abancay in Peru but now lives in Bielefeld in Germany.
“I visited the 60th Anniversary events of D-Day in Normandy, the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz and the festivities to mark the end of the war in Europe in Moscow on eighth of May in Moscow,” says 27-year-old Marc, a past-participant of an ASEF forum.
“For instance, the way how people remember events like the end of war in Europe gives us an insight into how history is dealt with today.”
“Is it more like some kind of show with historic uniforms and vehicles and military parades, or is it true remembrance? What is the media's role? Is it enough just to show heads of state, laying wreaths?”
“I hope to have been able to give a glimpse of what history and remembrance mean today at these historic events and sites”, says Marc.
