8:30 Lecture 2 September 1999
| Limits and Possebilities of Justice: NS Trials and German Post-War Society |
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| The process of de-Nazification helped the political and moral cleansing of Germany and was also a test of public sentiment. The exposure and prosecution of Nazi war criminals was the responsibility of the Allies and later the German justice system. Success and failure in this task has helped to shape attitudes towards National Socialism, which are still present today. |
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| Wolfgang Benz was born in 1941. He has studied History, History of Art and Politics. From 1960 until 1990 he worked at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Since 1990, he has been a professor at the Technical University, Berlin, and Head of the Institute for Research into Antisemitism. He has written numerous papers and contributed to many books about National Socialism, the Holocaust and the effects of exile, as well as stereotyping and racism in contemporary Germany. He received the Geschwister-Scholl prize in 1992. |
