We participated in the international scientific symposium Nuremberg Trials – 80 Years Later and Nazi Perverse Science, which brought together prominent domestic and international researchers from the fields of history, law, philosophy, culture, psychology and Holocaust studies and offered an in-depth reflection on the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi crimes, ideology and science, and their consequences for the contemporary understanding of law, guilt and responsibility. The main guest was Prof. Dr. Gideon Greif, Professor of Jewish History at the Ono Academic College and the ECPD University for Peace in Belgrade; Chief Historian at the Shem Olam Institute for Holocaust Research and at the Foundation for Holocaust Educational Projects in Miami. Research Associate at the MRC Maribor, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniel Siter, researcher and editor-in-chief at Alma Mater Europaea University and organizer of the symposium, impressed with his contribution “The Roots of Nazism Before World War II in Yugoslavia and Slovenia: the Subversiveness of the Kulturbund and the Post-War Trials Against Its Members”. The event was also enriched with excellent contributions by Prof. Dr. Ludvik Toplak, Boris Hajdinjak, Prof. Dr. Igor Grdina, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luka Martin Tomažič, Dr. Alja Brglez, Prof. Dr. Ferenc Miszlivetz, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mónika Mátay and Prof. Dr. Sebastjan Kristovič.
The symposium was held under the auspices of the program group Research on Cultural Formations (P6-0278, A), which is funded by the Public Agency for Scientific Research and Innovation of the Republic of Slovenia (ARIS).
