The so-called Einsatzgruppen trial revealed particularly clearly notions of colonial violence, ‘civilisation’ and mass crime, which formed part of the defendants’ defence strategies and served to downplay the gravity of their actions.
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How were other categories of crime invoked or distinguished from one another? What significance did such references hold for contemporary reception and the early debate on National Socialism?
- With Alexa Stiller and others
- Moderated by Claus Leggewie
Trials. Colonialism and Nazism on Trial
The United States 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 debates of the 1940s, 1960s, 1980s and 2010s were also at stake in these trials?
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February 2027
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