Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial: Regional Approaches and Perspectives in CEE
Schedule
Wed, 03 Dec, 2025 at 11:00 am to Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Pariser Platz 4a, 10117 Berlin, Germany | Berlin, BE
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International Conference: Unknown Legacies of the Nuremberg Trial: Regional Approaches and Perspectives in East Central Europe3-4 December 2025 | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin | Registration: https://forms.gle/3zbKCHTDrbwCwzot9
The conference will reflect the significance, legacy, and shortcomings of the IMT Trial through interdisciplinary discussions on the legal and political foundations of the Nuremberg Trial, as well as on the actors and approaches overlooked in the master narrative. A critical analysis of the provisions of the IMT Charter, the selectivity of the Nuremberg indictment, and the omission of Soviet crimes from the Allied designs for postwar justice, complemented by case studies of different war crimes trials, will bring new perspectives to the debate on the history and contemporary reception of the Nuremberg Trial. Eight decades later, the conference experts will also address a pressing question facing the international community: Are today’s international courts truly capable of adjudicating mass atrocities?
The conference is held under the honorary patronage of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Radosław Sikorski.
Conference Agenda
DAY 1 (03.12)
13:00 – 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:15 Conference opening by the Director of the Pilecki Institute, Karol Madaj
14.15 - 16.00 Panel 1: (Re-) discovering the history of the Nuremberg Trial: international networks and domestic efforts preceding the London Conference
Dominika Uczkiewicz, The Polish contribution to the UNWCC and to the works of the International Military Tribunal
Elias Forneris, French and Belgian lawyers in London: Planning post-war justice (1941–44)
Ivo Cerman, Bohuslav Ečer and Antonín Hobza. The Czechoslovak approach to crimes against peace
Kinga Czechowska, Wacław Kulski and Michał Putulicki – two lawyers in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Chair: Piotr Długołęcki
16.00- 16.15 Coffee break
16.15-17.45 Panel 2: Victor’s justice or fair trial? Establishing the Nuremberg principles on the brink of the Cold War
Pavel Šturma, The Nuremberg Principles: Continuity and changes
Bartłomiej Krzan, The Role of criminal organizations in addressing mass criminality: Then and now
Miguel Manero de Lemos, Four 21st century myths concerning the crime of aggression. Or, the four forgotten legacies of the Nuremberg Trial concerning aggression and how East-Central European countries have long been standard bearers of such legacies
Mateusz Piątkowski, The grim side of Nuremberg – The case of air bombardments of Central European towns and cities
Chair: Ivana Hrdličková
17:45 - 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 19:30 Round Table Discussion: Conferences in London and Potsdam and the origins of the Nuremberg Trial
Participants: Annette Weinke, Jacek Tebinka, Pablo Gavira Díaz, Alexander Korb
Chair: Dominika Uczkiewicz
DAY 2 (04.12)
9:30-11:00 Panel 3: Judging major war criminals after Nuremberg
Tamás Hoffmann, History’s first domestic criminal trial against a former head of state for the crime of aggression – The Bárdossy case at the Hungarian People’s Tribunals
Boris Popivanov, Wartime justice, postwar power: The Sixth Chamber of Bulgaria’s People's Court in 1945
Oktawian Kuc, A Polish Nuremberg. The Supreme National Tribunal and its judicial dialogue with the IMT
Julia Klaus, Axis Rule in Occupied Asia? The Tokyo Tribunal, Its Uncomfortable Relationship with Nuremberg, and Rafał Lemkin
Chair: Karolina Wierczyńska
11:00- 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Panel 4: Domestic approaches and prosecutions I
Gabriele Chlevickeite, The Lithuanian contribution to post-war justice: War crimes trials, legal practitioners, and the Cold War context
Irina Rebrova, Cold War trials of Nazi crimes: The Yeysk case between Soviet, East German, and West German courts in the 1960s–1970s
Andrea Rudroff, Polish postwar trials against members of the Auschwitz camp personnel
Kamil Frączkiewicz, West German Investigations (1949-1990) into crimes committed in KL Gross Rosen
Ewelina Czarnowska, Selbstschutz as the Case Study in Postwar Justice: The Central Office in Ludwigsburg and Crimes in the Lublin District
Chair: John Cornell
13:00- 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 -15:30 Panel 5: Domestic approaches and prosecutions II
Elisa Novic, Damien Scalia, War crimes and collaboration on trial in France after 1945
Jarosław Suchoples, War responsibility trials in Finland, 1945-1948
Alina Ivanenko, Judging under occupation: Ukrainian judges under German rule and postwar Soviet trials
Filip Gańczak, Józef Skorzyński (1878-1959). Poland’s forgotten Nazi hunter
Chair: Krystian Wiciarz
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 –17:15 Round Table Discussion: Comprehensive or selective justice? Great Powers, ‘small states’, their visions and receptions of the Nuremberg Trial
Participants: Ivana Hrdličková, Tamás Hoffmann, Bartłomiej Krzan, Steve Crawshaw
Chair: Karolina Wierczyńska
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