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Konferenz
'Dealing With Nazi Collaborators After 1945. Comparative Views'

Organisator: PD Dr. habil. Udo Grashoff
21/11/2024 - 13:15 to 22/11/2024
HAIT, R.110

Description of the event

Programme

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

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

2.45 pm Discussion

3.30 pm Coffee Break

4.00 pm Panel 2: Collaborators and Criminal Justice in Eastern Europe

  • 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"

4.50 pm Discussion

5.20 pm Coffee Break

5.45 pm Panel 3: Categorisations

  • 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"

6.35 pm Discussion

7.30 pm Dinner

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Friday, 22 November 2024

9.15 am Panel 4: Nazi Collaboration and Public Discourse

  • 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"

10.05 am Discussion

10.30 am Coffee Break

11.00 am Panel 5: Stereotypes And Hidden Agendas

  • 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)"

12.20 pm Discussion

1. pm Lunch

2.30 pm Panel 6: "Late" Trials

  • 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"

3.20 pm Discussion

3.50 pm Concluding Discussions

4.30 pm End



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Gestapo informer Johann Pav in front of the Volksgericht Wien. (ÖNB / Blaha)