Trials. Colonialism and National Socialism on trial
Djamila Boupacha, aged 22, was put on trial before a French military court in Algeria on charges relating to a planned bomb attack. When it emerged that her confession had been extracted through torture and sexual violence, this sparked a media scandal which led to the trial being moved to France and to widespread expressions of solidarity.
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What arguments were used to bring charges against the French colonial regime? What parallels were drawn with Nazi crimes of violence? And what impact did these debates have on Algerian and French society?
- With Raphaëlle Branche, Stephan Malinowski and others
- Moderated by Claus Leggewie
Trials. Colonialism and Nazism on Trial
The USA v Otto Ohlendorf et al. (1947/48), the military tribunal v Djamila Boupacha (1960/61), the public prosecutor’s office v Klaus Barbie (1987), Mutua et al. v the United Kingdom (2012): Four trials that dealt with colonial and Nazi violence – and, both in the courtroom itself and in the accompanying debates, with comparisons between the two.
What were the charges, and how were the defendants defended? Which social and historical-political controversies of the 1940s, 1960s, 1980s and 2010s were also at stake here?
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February 2027
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