Inhalt Nachkriegsjustiz und NS-Verbrechen
ARTIKEL

Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider
„Ordnung machen im eigenen Haus“.
Die Verbrechen von Engerau vor Gericht –
der größte österreichische Prozess wegen
nationalsozialistischer Gewaltverbrechen
an ungarisch-jüdischen Zwangsarbeitern

Andrea Pető
Problems of Transitional Justice in Hungary:
An Analysis of the People’s Tribunals in Post-War
Hungary and the Treatment of Female Perpetrators

Eleonore Lappin
Strukturen der Verantwortung.
Volksgerichtsverfahren wegen Verbrechen
gegen ungarische Juden in österreichischen
Zwangsarbeiterlagern des Sondereinsatzkommandos
der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Ungarn,
Außenkommando Wien

ABSTRACTS

REZENSION
Berthold Unfried, „Ich bekenne“. Katholische Beichte
und sowjetische Selbstkritik (Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft Bd. 31), Frankfurt a. Main 2006
(Stephan Ganglbauer)

AUTORINNEN

Abstracts

Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider
“Making Order in the Own House”. The Crimes of Engerau in Court – the Biggest Austrian Process
of National Socialist Crimes against Hungarian-Jewish Slave Labourers

In 1945 the main goal was to show not only to the Austrians, but also to the Allies the serious willingness
of the Austrian legal system of punishing atrocities and other crimes committed by nazi
perpetrators. The very first trial took place from August 14th to 17th in Vienna. Four Viennese
Sturmabteilung (storm trooper)-guards were charged with murder against more than hundred
Hungarian Jews convicted in the course of evacuation in the Engerau-camp near Bratislava,
during the nazi era in the German Reich. Three of the accused were condemned to death and
executed. The so-called six Engerau-trials between 1945 and 1954 against 21 accused – out of
who nine were sentenced to death – represented one side of post-war-judiciary in Austria. On the
other side a lot of atrocities have not been made public or mild judgements were pronounced.

Andrea Pető
Problems of Transitional Justice in Hungary: An Analysis of the People’s Tribunals in Post-War Hungary
and the Treatment of Female Perpetrators

The paper analyses the process how post WW II justice system the people’s tribunals were set up
in Hungary based on the files of the people’s court trials. It reviews the scholarly literature on the
people’s tribunals in Hungary, examining in particular assessments of the practice of the people’s
tribunals and it is also analysing the tribunals’ treatment of female perpetrators. The aim is to
demonstrate how the absence of a systematic scholarly approach and the presence of various
political ideologies have influenced previous research on the subject as well as the conclusions
drawn by historians. The developing scholarly research on female perpetrators, members of the
Arrow Cross movement is giving additional insights on gender dimension of not only the retroactive
justice but also of violence against Jews.

Eleonore Lappin
Structures of Responsibility. People’s Court Trial Concerning Crimes Committed against Hungarian
Jewish Slave Laborers in Camps of the Sondereinsatzkommandos der Sicherheitspolizei und des
SD in Ungarn, Außenkommando Wien

This article investigates people’s courts trials dealing with crimes committed in slave labor camps
were under the control of the Sondereinsatzkommando der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in
Ungarn. These trials show the structures of responsibility of different groups in the Nazi hierarchy
for the exploitation and often murder of Hungarian Jewish slave laborers in Austria during
the last year of World War II. Contrary to most people’s courts trials these cases did not rely only
on testimonies of non-Jewish Austrians, but also heard Jewish witnesses. Some of these Jewish
survivors had been slave laborers others employees of the Viennese Council of Elders. Each group
of witnesses presented their own perspectives and interpretations of the events such creating a
fascinating multi-faceted picture.