16.05.2022 Drittes Monatskolloquium 2022 - "Law, Order and Purge in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg" - Dr. Elisabeth Wingerter

Für das dritte Monatskolloquium des Jahres 2022 konnte das ICWC Dr. Elisabeth Wingerter als Vortragende gewinnen.

Sie wird einen Vortrag zu dem Thema "Law, Order and Purge in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg" halten. 

Abstract:

After a four-year occupation by Nazi Germany, Luxembourgish government and state officials as well as its inhabitants were confronted with the question of removing and sanctioning former collaborators in their midst through a political purge (épuration). The groundwork for the legal measures targeting both German war criminals in Luxembourg and ‘antipatriotic’ Luxembourgers began to take shape in the work of the exile government from 1943 onwards. These legal measures were introduced in a time of political uncertainty, administrative instability and trauma. It seems obvious that the simplifying categorizations of ‘enemies and patriots’ / collaborators and resistance fighters do not help to assess the actual workings and consequences of regulated purges.

The recently submitted dissertation Law, Order and Postwar Purge (defended at the University of Luxembourg in 2021) aims at offering a new understanding of the regulated purges in postwar Luxembourg by analyzing them through the lens of (re-)distributive and restorative transitional justice. It uses a primary source corpus of individual files from administrative and judicial purge proceedings, as well as documents from the justice, police and gendarmerie administrations from various collections.

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Termin:

18. Mai 2022 

16 Uhr c.t.

Raum +3/0210 Savignyhaus; Universitätsstraße 6

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