Ethical Charter for Memorial Sites
The ethical charter of memorial sites plays a fundamental role within the Mémorial Alsace-Moselle, as it ensures a rigorous, educational, and humanistic transmission of the history of Alsace and Moselle during the Second World War.
It guarantees the preservation and transmission of memory, whether national, collective, or individual.
It also helps make this place a space for civic reflection, where visitors are made aware of the values of peace, tolerance, democracy, and respect for human rights.
Guided by these ethical principles, the Memorial promotes an objective historical understanding, while raising awareness among visitors of the consequences of war and demonstrating how these led to the need to build lasting peace in Europe, notably through the process of Franco-German reconciliation and European integration embodied by the European Union.