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Mastering Hitler – Outside Views: Continuities and discontinuities of functional elites in Germany from the 1920s to the 1970s and its recent historical research discourse in international perspective

Veranstalter
Magnus Brechtken (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin); Tobias Straumann (Universität Zürich); Władysław Bułhak; Mikael Nilsson; Thomas Wegener Friis (Universität Zürich)
Ausrichter
Universität Zürich
Veranstaltungsort
Rämistraße 71, KOL-E-13 EV (Senatszimmer)
PLZ
8006
Ort
Zürich
Land
Switzerland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
04.10.2023 - 06.10.2023
Von
Elena Bös, Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin

Mastering Hitler - Outside Views

Wir laden die interessierte Öffentlichkeit dazu ein, die vom 4. bis 6. Oktober 2023 an der Universität Zürich stattfindende Konferenz "Mastering Hitler – Outside Views: Continuities and discontinuities of functional elites in Germany from the 1920s to the 1970s and its recent historical research discourse in international perspective" zu besuchen.

Mastering Hitler - Outside Views

We invite the interested public to attend the conference "Mastering Hitler – Outside Views: Continuities and discontinuities of functional elites in Germany from the 1920s to the 1970s and its recent historical research discourse in international perspective", which will take place October 4 to 6 at the University of Zurich.

Mastering Hitler – Outside Views: Continuities and discontinuities of functional elites in Germany from the 1920s to the 1970s and its recent historical research discourse in international perspective

Over the past two decades historical research in Germany on questions of “Coming to terms with the past“, i.e. the legacy and impact of National Socialist rule, has focused on the question of continuities and discontinuities of elite groups in politics, ministerial bureaucracy, administration, parliamentary institutions, diplomatic services, medical profession, judiciary and many others, incl. e.g. the development from the Reichsbank to the Bundesbank, from the SS and Gestapo to the West German Intelligence Services.

These research projects have produced a wide variety of publications, most of which are only available in the German language. They provide a plethora of new knowledge and insights into the way in which people at certain positions in German institutions developed their worldview and their actions from the late 1920s through the Third Reich to the Federal Republic. Yet, there has been little attention so far towards the “view from outside“ both during this period (the 1920s to the 1970s) as well as part of the historiographical discourse which shaped the topics of contemporary history over the past two decades.

The conference shall address this void and broaden the international perspectives. First it shall look at how Germany‘s “coming to terms with the past“ and the role of the functional elites in the period after 1945 was viewed, perceived and discussed in other countries during that period. While there has been considerable research on the views of the Western allies, little is known about discourse in many other countries. The conference seeks to identify the present state of our knowledge and is open for suggestions to learn about research on countries which may have not been in the focus so far.

The conference shall also put the research development and results of the past two decades into an international historiographical perspective. We would like to invite scholars from all areas which are interested in German historiography to participate in the evaluation of how these research projects fit into the general development of Germany‘s coming to terms with the past over the past seven decades.

Aim is to link the rather German-focused discourse over the past years to an international discourse which shall function as a bridge between the German-speaking and the English-speaking world.

Programm

Day 1: Wednesday 4 October 2023

12.00h Meet & Greet
13.00h Welcome & Introduction

13.30 – 15.00h Panel 1: Cold War Contexts

Michał Turski: Polish secret police and the west German research on the Eastern Europe during Cold War

Nils Abraham: History as an Instrument in the Cold War – The use of the coming to terms with the NS-past in GDR‘s foreign policy towards Sweden

Jasmin Söhner: An alleged war criminal as head of the specialized war crimes investigation unit? A case of Soviet misunderstanding and instrumentalisation of West German Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Moderator: Mikael Nilsson

15.00 – 15.30h Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00h Panel 2: Culture in context

Anna G. Piotrowka: Film music composers in NS Germany and their after WWII afterlives

Katherine Quinlan-Flatter: Forbidden Art

Moderator: Elena Bös

18.00-19.30h Keynote: Kerstin von Lingen

Day 2: Thursday 5 October 2023

9.00-11.00h Panel 3: Judicial perspectives

Henrik Lundtofte: Post-war trials and Continuity – some Danish perspectives

Paweł Kosiński: Government of the General Government – a criminal organization. A stop on the way to the scaffold..., or to a further career.

Krzysztof Persak: “The Fourth Reich”: Thomas Harlan’s pioneering project on former Nazis in the West German elite versus the Communist authorities in Poland

Moderator: Thomas Wegener Friis

11.00-11.30h Coffee Break

11.30-13.00h Panel 4: Global perspectives

Vandana Joshi: War, Diplomacy and Memory: The Value of British-Indian POWs in Mastering Hitler’s Past

Matías Grinchpun: ¿Una nueva Alemania? (Contrasting) Perceptions of postwar Germany in Peronist Argentina, 1945-55

Moderator: Magnus Brechtken

13.00-15.00h Lunch Break

15.00-17.30h Panel 5: Media and historiography

Norman Domeier: „Typewriter Perpetrators“. Continuities in the international careers of Nazi journalists after 1945

Peter Thaler: Externalizing the Past: Postwar Austria and the History of the Third Reich

Wojciech Wichert: Historikerstreit 1986/1987 in the Polish scientific and journalistic perception

Moritz Schramm: “Seduced by the Great Führer”? Reception of Albert Speer and his post-1945 career in Denmark

Moderator: Tobias Straumann

Day 3: Friday 6 October 2023

9.00-11.30 Panel 6: Individuals & the general perspective

Viktoria Sukovata: Legacy of V. Klemperer and Perceptions of German Political Philosophy in Soviet and post-Soviet times

Jacek Tebinka: The case of SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth. From serving the Third Reich to career in West Germany

Jacek Jędrysiak: "All the Nazi Generations" - Commanding Staff of the Bundeswehr in the 1960s in the Light of Documents of the Polish People's Army (based on Materials from Military Districts)

Moderator: Władysław Bułhak

11.30-12.00h Coffee Break

12.00-13.00h Panel Discussion

13.00 End of Conference

Kontakt

Those who would like to confirm their presence in advance are welcome to write a short message to: conference_mh@ifz-muenchen.de

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