DE

2024

76 min

Finished

Memories of Occupation and Dialogue for the Future

Erinnerungen an die Besatzung und Dialog für die Zukunft

Directing: Dimitris Argyriou

Synopsis

Νeighboring Greek villages, Pyrgi and Mesovouno, were looted, massacred and burned completely by German troops. Since 2010, the German-Greek cultural association "Dialogos" in Delmenhorst is in close contact with the two villages and succeeded in creating an exchange of students between a German school and three Greek schools.
"Memories from the Occupation and Dialogue for the Future", with interviews with the German and Greek teachers who started the student exchange program, covers in detail the reasons and how the program started, what problems were encountered, what were the experiences of the German teachers, what were the experiences of the Greek teachers and mainly what were the experiences of German and Greek students.
Also, with testimonies from the massacre survivors and intervie

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