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