| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 18, 2015 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
In today’s Europe, one might think that the sins of the Second World War belong to the past and the reconciliation among once occupied countries and the German perpetrators was successfully accomplished. During the recent Greek economic crisis, however, Greek-German tension has proven just the opposite. In my talk, I will briefly characterize the period of the German occupation of Greece (1941-1944) in order to elaborate in more depth on the postwar relation between Athens and Bonn and, later, Berlin. The main focus will be placed on punishment of German perpetrators on one hand and compensation payments towards Greece on the other. This approach will support more general conclusions about how West and later reunified Germany was able to regain credibility in (post-)Cold War Europe.
Dr. Kateřina Králová is assistant professor in Contemporary History at the Balkan, Eurasian and Central European Studies of the Institute of International Studies and former Vice-Dean for International Relations (2010-2015 at the Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague) (Czech Republic). In her research she focuses on reconciliation with the Nazi past, post-conflict societies, memory and oral history as regards the Holocaust, Greek Civil War and post-war reconstruction particularly in Greece. She completed her master studies in Marburg, Germany (2002) and Ph.D. in Prague (2010) with a thesis on Greek-German relations published in 2012 in Czech Republic and in Greece. A German translation is in progress. During her academic career she obtained several prestigious scholarships including the IKY at the UOM (Greece), the DAAD at the Heinrich Heine University (Germany), and the Fulbright Fellowship at the Yale University (USA). In 2015, she is a Visiting Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She widely published on the topics of her research in Czech, Greek, German, and English.
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