Introduction to German Trials: "Introduction to German Trials" by Emily Harpster

Current Projects: Collaboration with the University of Marburg, Germany

The Center is compiling information on the post-WWII war crimes trials in Europe and Asia, in cooperation with the International Documentation Center for War Crimes Trials in Marburg, Germany, Directed by Prof. Hening Radtke. We are currently working to create a master list of all national-level trials of Germans held in the wake of WWII.

Papers: "Transitional Justice in Divided Germany After 1945" by David Cohen

The confrontation with the past in divided Germany after 1945 presents one of the most complex cases of transitional justice in the postwar period. There is first the fact that, at least until 1951, the reckoning with past injustice was for the most part imposed, guided, or supervised by outside conquering powers rather than by internal forces which had overthrown the previous regime. Second, the occupying powers exercised their authority in four separate occupation zones, each with its own administration and political goals, as well as its own approach to coming to terms with the Nazi era. more...