Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials

Almost everyone has heard of the Nuremberg Trial of major Nazi leaders after World War II, but few people realize that this was only one among tens of thousands of trials conducted not just in every major country in Europe, but around the globe, from Canada to Australia, Israel to the United States. These trials continue to the present day, with cases still pending in German courts. This decades-long, global effort to bring Nazi perpetrators to justice represents the largest and most sustained effort to prosecute mass atrocities and genocide in the history of the world. Outlining this global struggle for justice, Devin Pendas will explain how these trials worked and what impact they had on the postwar world.

This program is part of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum's Permanent Exhibition Highlight Series. Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used.

About Dr. Devin Pendas
Devin Pendas, PhD, is professor of history at Boston College. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law and Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 and co-editor of Political Trials in History and Theory, Beyond the Racial State: New Perspectives on Nazi Germany. He has been a guest professor at the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, and at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan.