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EVENT ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION

Christoph Safferling, Theresia Bauer, Dorothee Weitbrecht, Christian Kuchler, Paula Santana with Federal Public Prosecutor General Jens Rommel (f.l.t.r.)

WELCOME ADDRESS
Pastor Monika Renninger
Director of the Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart

THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION – TAKING STOCK AND LOOKING AHEAD
Dr. Dorothee Weitbrecht
Executive director of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation – International Dialog for Remembrance and Democracy

LECTURE
The ban on the denial of crimes against humanity. National and international aspects of a current and controversial topic.

Dr. Christoph Safferling, LL.M. (LSE)
Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law and International Law with ICLU at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg

Paragraph 130 of the German Criminal Code, „incitement of the people“, prohibits the denial of the Holocaust. More and more countries are discussing the introduction of laws against the denial of genocide and crimes against humanity. In Germany, too, the denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has generally been a punishable offense since 2008 following an EU framework decision. How effective is this legal instrument in curbing extremist tendencies? Is Germany taking on a pioneering role in the criminal prosecution of denial of past acts of violence against peoples and minorities?

PANEL DISCUSSION

• Christoph Safferling
• Theresia Bauer, Director of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg (2011-2022)
• Paula Santana, Education Department of the “Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum”

Moderation: Dr. Christian Kuchler, Chair of Didactics of History, University of Augsburg

EXCHANGE AND RECEPTION

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6TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION, BOGOTÁ, MARCH 12-13, 2024 

With the 6th symposium of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, we offer experts from Latin America and Germany a forum to exchange views on the political, legal, historical, pedagogical and psychological dealing with past experiences of violence. The symposium is dedicated to an interdisciplinary and international exchange on the dynamics in societies that have experienced historical violence. The aim is to analyze weaknesses and strengths in dealing with the past in Germany and Colombia, in Argentina and Chile to identify shared challenges and to lay a foundation for future cooperation in the field of intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to dealing with the experience of violence.

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6. SYMPOSIUM OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION, 2024, 12-13 March

RECEPTION GERMAN EMBASSY, 2024, MARCH 13

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EXHIBITION «NIÑOS ROBADOS. GESTOHLENE KINDER. STOLEN CHILDREN»

The exhibition focuses on politically motivated child abduction and its destructive effect on people, families and communities. Life stories of victims from countries such as Argentina, Germany, El Salvador, Canada, the Soviet Union and Spain are presented, each in their historical context. This exhibition, organized by the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany and the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, sheds light on a dark chapter in world history that is usually marginalized in public perception despite its profound impact.

The exhibition Niños robados. Gestohlene Kinder. Stolen Children can be ordered on the website of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany. The exhibition is available in German, Spanish and English as a printed poster set in DIN A1 format and as a print file in 85 (W) X 200 (H) centimeter format for your cultural and educational work.

Opening of the exhibition «Niños robados. Gestohlene Kinder. Stolen children» 20. and 22. November, 2023, Berlin

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Niños robados. Gestohlene Kinder. Stolen Children, which we conceived in cooperation with the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Alexander Latotzky from Germany and Leonardo Fossati from Argentina reported on the forced separation from their families and the theft of their identities in the Bundestag and the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin.

The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, Evelyn Zupke, SED Victims’ Commissioner at the German Bundestag, Rainer Huhle, Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the Argentinian Ambassador to Germany, Fernando Brun, opened the exhibitions.

1. MEMORIA TALK

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We are pleased to invite you to our 1 Memoria Talk on the occasion of the anniversary of the German arrest warrants against Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera and Carlos Guillermo Suarez Mason 28 of November 2003.
Jorge Videla was General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Argentina during the period from March 24 to July 3, 1978, and de facto President of the State at that time. In this capacity, he and others established a regime of terror, including a repressive apparatus with hierarchical command structures, with the aim of systematically killing political dissidents. Among the victims were also German citizens. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German prosecutor’s office issued international arrest warrants against former members of the government of a foreign state for the murder of German citizens and requested their extradition.

Contemporary witnesses, lawyers and scholars in international criminal law look back at the historic developments and discuss their impact on international criminal law.

SCHOLARSHIP OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS OF THE MA “CONFLICT, MEMORY AND PEACE” AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY EICHSTÄTT-INGOLSTADT