The bdla has dedicated the 1/2020 issue of "Landschaftsarchitekten" to the focus "War and Peace". The occasion is the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the liberation from National Socialism.

Numerous articles in the issue deal with the handling of memorial sites and portray places of remembrance.

Axel Klapka, k1 Landschaftsarchitekten, and his office have uncovered the history of a Nazi forced labor camp in the middle of Berlin, layer by layer. He sums up the task thus:

'As a planner, you are faced with the challenge of making traces of the darkest chapter of German history visible.

Axel Klapka

Political scientist Tobias Voigt describes the Seelow Heights, where in January 1945 the war pushed its way across the Oder and "for ten weeks, kilometre by kilometre, pushed its way in front of the heights, ready for the storming of Berlin. (...) In the spring of 1945, the war reshapes the Oderland".

And Lukas Nicolaisen of the Fachstelle Radikalisierungsprävention und Engagement im Naturschutz states that for years right-wing extremist groups have been involved in nature and environmental protection, seeing ecological interest and activity as part of the so-called "cultural revolution from the right".

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