1. “The Nobel Peace Prize 2012—Press Release,” Nobelprize.org, October 15, 2012,
http://www.nobelprize.org
/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2012/press .html (accessed January 2, 2013).
2. Adenauer had lived in hiding until he was arrested, together with his wife, in the crackdown raids that followed July 20, 1944. He was interned in Brauweiler near Cologne, one of the first concentration camps and later in a secret police (Gestapo) prison. Having suffered himself, Adenauer did not have much empathy for victims and felt entitled to a policy of forgetting and forgiving; Hermann Daners and Josef Wißkirchen, Was in Brauweiler geschah. Die NS-Zeit und ihre Folgen in der Rheinischen Provinzial-- Arbeitsanstalt (Pulheim: Verein für Geschichte, 2006), pp. 93–95.
3. Rainer Blasius, “Der gute Wille muss auch anerkannt werden,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 11, 2009, 60, p. L21 (my translations).
4. Official Journal of the European Union, January 27, 2005,
http://www.eurlex.europa.eu
/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2005:253E:0037:0039:DE: PDF (accessed January 2, 2013). In the same year, Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, joined the initiative and declared January 27 an annual commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust.
5. Jens Kroh, Transnationale Erinnerung. Der Holocaust im Fokus geschichtspoli-tischer Initiativen (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008). In 2012 the ITF was renamed the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance” (IHRA) and the websites were changed accordingly. The new logo was devised by Daniel Liebeskind.