Dealing With Nazi Collaborators After 1945. Comparative Views

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Dealing With Nazi Collaborators After 1945. Comparative Views

Veranstalter
PD Dr. Udo Grashoff
Veranstaltungsort
Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 6
Gefördert durch
DFG
PLZ
01069
Ort
Dresden
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
21.11.2024 - 22.11.2024
Von
Udo Grashoff, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung, TU Dresden

Please register with udo.grashoff@mailbox.uni-dresden.de

Dealing With Nazi Collaborators After 1945. Comparative Views

Collaboration with National Socialist organisations was a complex and widespread phenomenon during the Nazi regime and especially during the Second World War. In the post-war period, collaboration with the Gestapo, NSDAP, SS and other Nazi organisations was a central topic of criminal prosecution and public debate in numerous European countries. The term ‘collaboration’, which is often used in a normative and moralising way, generally covers very different forms of cooperation in politics, society and culture, with a spectrum of asymmetrical power relations between the respective collaborators and Nazi organisations and authorities ranging from almost voluntary to brutally enforced cooperation.

The international academic conference aims to develop comparative perspectives on the handling of collaboration in different social and political contexts. It will also discuss the question of whether the criminal penalties and contemporary debates about ‘traitors’ were appropriate and suitable for determining the actual guilt of collaborators. The significance of the topic of collaboration for coming to terms with the Nazi past in the two post-war decades will be analysed on the basis of individual studies and transnational comparisons.

Programm

Thursday, 21 November 2024

12.45 pm Reception
1.15 pm Welcome

1.30 pm
Panel 1: Coming To Terms With Nazi Collaboration In Norway
Chair: Udo Grashoff

- Lars-Erik Vaale: The handling of NS collaborators in Norway, with a comparative perspective on other former German-occupied countries in Western Europe

- Oystein Hetland: Where to draw the line? The post-war judgment of collaboration by Norwegian police officers

- Christina Holzmann: Collaboration and Gender. Norway after World War Two

4 pm
Panel 2: Collaborators And Criminal Justice In Eastern Europe
Chair: Dan Porat

- Leonid Rein: Local Holocaust Perpetrators and Soviet Justice: The Case of Kiev Region

- Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe: Unpunished Perpetrators. The Missing Trials of the Polish Mayors of the General Government

5.45 pm
Panel 3: Categorisations
Chair: Gintarė Malinauskaitė

- Christina Wirth: Collaborators in the Shadow of the Cold War: Adjustments in Categorizing Collaborators among the Displaced Persons in the BOZ between 1946–1947

- Renée Wagener: 'Voluntarily served the politics and goals of the enemy'. Judicial and social perception of collaboration in post-war Luxembourg

Friday, 22 November 2024

9.15 am
Panel 4: Nazi Collaboration And Public Discourse
Chair: Zarin Ashrafi

- Dan Porat: Examining Perspectives on Collaboration: The Israeli Kapo Trials

- Thorsten Holzhauser: In the Name of Democracy: Dealing with Nazis and Collaborators in Post-War France and Austria

11 am
Panel 5: Stereotypes And Hidden Agendas
Chair: Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe

- Martin Göllnitz / Henrik Lundtofte: Of 'failures and psychopaths, political charlatans and fanatical murderers'. Dealing with heavily incriminated Danish collaborators after 1945

- Udo Grashoff: Scapegoats? Prosecution of traitors from workers' parties in East and West Germany, and Austria (1945-1955)

2.30 pm
Panel 6: "Late" Trials
Chair: Renée Wagener

- Koen Aerts: Something Rotten in the State of Belgium: The Postwar Purge and the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - The De Becker Case (1956-1962)

- Gintarė Malinauskaitė: Alleged Collaborators in the American Exile: Soviet Lithuanian War Crimes Trials of the 1960s and the Cold War

3.50 pm
Concluding Discussion

4.30 pm
End

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udo.grashoff@mailbox.uni-dresden.de

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