Crimes Committed By Totalitarian Regimes (EUROPEAN Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes)

Cover......Page 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
I. HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES......Page 12
Historical justice for Europe: why, when and how?......Page 14
Sugestions on asesment of totalitarian comunism......Page 22
The making of the comunist regime in Slovenia and Yugoslavia......Page 26
Totalitarian regimes in Slovenia in the 20th century......Page 40
Characteristics of the judicial system in Slovenia betwen 1945 and 1951......Page 62
The Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia under three totalitarian regimes......Page 72
The ned for equal treatment of Nazi and Soviet crimes......Page 82
Hypocrisy of discrimination among victims of totalitarian crimes......Page 86
II. TOTALITARIAN CRIMES: CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY......Page 88
Crimes comited in Latvia by the ocupation regimes of the USSR and Germany (1940–90)......Page 90
Political represion in the 1940’s and 1950’s in Estonia......Page 98
Lithuanian victims of comunist ocupation......Page 100
Poland – the victim of two totalitarian regimes......Page 102
The Securitate legacy – teror in Romania......Page 106
A topic domed to oblivion: foreign prisoners in Soviet custody – with special regard to the fate of Hungarian civilian internes......Page 112
Represion over the Slovenian people by the German Nazism......Page 118
Crimes comited by the fascist regime in the Slovene teritory......Page 126
Totalitarian features of the judiciary in the Republic of Slovenia (1945–90): disregard for the rule of law......Page 136
Comunist concentration camps and labour camps in Slovenia......Page 146
Secret World War Two mas graves in Slovenia......Page 156
Comunist represion of “interior enemies” in Slovenia......Page 162
III. TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: PROSECUTION AND REDRESS OF INJUSTICE......Page 174
Reparation and reconciliation in international law : the view of an Estonian lawyer......Page 176
Prosecution of Nazi and Comunist crimes in Poland......Page 178
On rehabilitation and remedy measures in Bulgaria for persons represed from 1944 through 1989......Page 186
Transitional justice in Spain......Page 192
Comunist represion and transitional justice in Slovenia......Page 198
POST-WORLD WAR TWO CRIMES ON THE TERIRORY OF SLOVENIA: POLICE INVESTIGATION AND PROOF REGARDING CRIMINAL OFFENCES THAT DO NOT FALL UNDER THE STATUTE OF lIMITATIONS......Page 208
About ideologies, institutions and death......Page 216
IV. REMEMBRANCE, RECOGNITION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS OF TOTALITARIAN HISTORY......Page 218
Is it wise to discus themes that hurt ?......Page 220
The ned for a reAppraisal of the European history......Page 224
Active remembrance and regional identity : European Union promotion of an international project with participants from Bohemia , Eichsfeld and Upper Silesia......Page 228
“Vergangenheitsbewältigung ”......Page 232
An overview of educational activities with respect to crimes comited by totalitarian regimes: the Polish experience......Page 236
Research, teaching and consultancy in the field of transitional justice and human rights......Page 242
Divergences within European politics with regard to comunist totalitarianism......Page 248
Notes on the open isue of united European history......Page 252
Posible comon European history schol textbok: Item not listed in agenda – reaction to pres reports......Page 254
Transition from the “Gulag Empire” to the Western civilisation – isues of remembrance and education......Page 256
Promoting public awarenes of totalitarian crimes......Page 260
V. RECONCILIATION: ON HANDLING THE TRAUMATIC PAST......Page 264
Remembering and reconciliation : an international law perspective......Page 266
Crimes of totalitarian regimes: in the search for reconciliation with the Past......Page 276
The role of European institutions in the proces of reconciliation......Page 280
Reconciliation and totalitarian crimes : which lesons can be drawn from a sucesful experience?......Page 284
Instead of suces: hope for truth – at best......Page 288
Closing remarks......Page 298
End-note from the editor......Page 300
APPENDICES......Page 302
“United Europe – United History ” Initiative of the 22 January 2006 Conference organised at the European Parliament......Page 304
Statements by the Council to be inserted in the minutes of the Council at the time of adoption of the Framework Decision......Page 310
INDEX OF NAMES AND ITEMS......Page 316