Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine

ISBN-13: 9783631809570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 182 str.

Christian Garuka;Klaus Bachmann

Opis

More and more countries have passed legislation which punishes the use of controversial statements and interpretations of the past, often going much beyond the scope of legislation forbidding Holocaust denial.

Spis treści

Memory laws, politics of history, Holocaust denial, Rwanda, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Turkey, genocide ideology, denialism, lustration, communism, Holocaust, defamation

O autorze

Klaus Bachmann is professor of social sciences at SWPS University of Social Sci -ences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland. His research concentrates on Inter-national Criminal Justice, Modern European History and European Integration.

Christian Garuka is Lawyer and defence counsellor in Kigali, Rwanda.