Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
The Documentation Centre features exhibits, library and testimony archive about forced migration and expulsion of people in the 20th century. The main focus is on the fate of German refugees in the course of World War II, but that issue is presented in the context of the German attack on its neighbours in the war and the prior displacement and expulsion of other ethnic groups on the orders of the German government. The museum was controversial before it was even opened as it was championed by Erika Steinbach, a controversial right wing figure in the German expellee movement which is dominated by the political right. Steinbach and her idea of a "centre against expulsions" were particularly controversial in Poland, but the finished museum has seen no input from Steinbach and tries to strike a balance between portraying the suffering of expellees (German or otherwise) while also not ignoring the greater context and the fact that the expulsions were the direct result of German military aggression.
- Address
- Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin
- Getting there
- near S-Bahn station Anhalter Bahnhof
- Hours
- Tue-Sun 10:00-19:00
- Price
- Free (ticket needs to be booked in advance on website)
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Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.