Against forgetting - The Heritage of the Nuremberg Trials

A war is over - and what happens then? Under the title ‘Against forgetting’, this international youth exchange programme looks at the Nuremberg Trials and their significance for the prosecution of war crimes to this day.

80 years ago, in November 1945, the war crimes tribunal began in Nuremberg. Leading National Socialists had to answer for their actions under Nazi rule - for the systematic persecution and extermination of Jews and other minorities, for unleashing a war of aggression and for other crimes against humanity. The trials revealed the extent and cruelty of the National Socialist reign of terror. For the first time, a community of states, the Allies at the time, took the leading war criminals of the defeated state to court. The Nuremberg Trials are thus regarded as the beginning of international criminal law and as a precursor to the International Criminal Court.

During our project, we will learn more about the historical background of the trials and their influence on international criminal justice. We will look at the convicted war criminals and their behaviour during the trials. Based on this, we will look at what leads to war crimes and crimes against humanity, how they are prosecuted and punished today, and what threatens international criminal law today.

We will visit the historic courtroom 600, local places of remembrance and the documentation centre of the Nazi party rally grounds. During our project, we will also produce a contribution to an international exhibition on war crimes and a podcast. The working language is English.

Registration: please register first with our partners if you come from the following countries: Poland (Partner:College of Eastern Europe)
Hungary (Partner: ZACHOR Foundation For Social Remembrance)
Slovenia (Partner: National Youth Council of Slovenia)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (Partner: Association "Education builds Bosnia and Herzegovina – Jovan Divjak")

Germans and other internationals, please register below.