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The Rule of Law the German Way

30 September 2020

Patria Nostra – The Rule of Law the German Way

  • The interview with Stanisław Zalewski

    The interview with Stanisław Zalewski – KL Auschwitz and Mauthausen (Gusen I, Gusen II) former prisoner, the president of the Polish Association of the Former Political Hitlerian Prisons and Concentration Camps Prisoners to the needs of “International Dialogue of Present-day Ways to Memorialize the Truth About German Genocide in the Territory of the Occupied Poland” project and within “Participation of the Witness of the History in the Project” point. Patria Nostria: Mrs Stanisław, because of the pandemic your plans to meet with the Touro College in Berlin, where you were supposed to tell about your experience from extermination camps and come to the students why the historical truth is so important in the context of who was a victim and who was an executioner during the II World War failed… Stanisław Zalewski: I hope that the meeting will happen, I have a lot to tell to those young people. However, what is the most important at the moment is health. Nevertheless, I am very pleased that youth want to listen about such tough issues. I know from my own experience, that they like when everything is chronologically presented and the path “how it happened” is clearly showed. Patria Nostria: Let’s […]
  • The main themes and a summary of Attorney Lech Obara’s lecture to be given during the international scientific conference on 26 November 2020.

    A brief history of the Patria Nostra Association and its mission The Patria Nostra Association unites former concentration camp prisoners and their descendants, as well as lawyers, scientists, and all those who care about the historical truth.  Attorney Lech Obara is the president of the Association, and Janina Luberda-Zapaśnik, a former prisoner of the concentration camp in Potulice (Lebrechtsdorf), is the vice-president The idea to establish the Patria Nostra Association appeared in 2009. It was established due to the habitual use in international media of phrases constituting “defective memory codes”, such as “the Polish concentration camp”, “ the Polish death camp”, “Polish Nazis”, “Polish crimes against humanity”, “Nazi Poland” or “the Polish Gestapo”. The common use of the term “the Polish extermination camp” or “the Polish concentration camp” leads to a dangerous image for Poland and for the Polish historical policy alike, to the impression in the historical consciousness of foreign societies that it was not the Germans, but the Poles who set up these criminal camps. Since 2004, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been carrying out diplomatic activities to combat the usage of the phrase “the Polish extermination camp” by international media. Between 2008 and 2017 Polish […]
  • GERMAN AND ITS CRIMES IN POLAND DURING WORLD WAR II – International conference November 11, 2020

    KONFERENCJA 26.11.2020 Registration link to the conference […]
  • Touro College Berlin / Patria Nostra Olsztyn Thursday, 26 November 2020 – International Conference

    Germany and its crimes in Poland during World War II Deutschland und die Verbrechen in Polen im Zweiten Weltkrieg Niemcy i zbrodnie w Polsce podczas II wojny światowej Knowledge and gaps in knowledge Wissen und Wissenslücken / Wiedza i luki w wiedzy (9:30-12), Chair: Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt, Touro College Berlin German school books – Deutsche Schulbücher / Podręczniki szkolne (Prof. Dr. Igor Kąkolewski, CBH PAN Berlin) Public opinion – Die öffentliche Meinung / Opinia publiczna (Dr. Agnieszka Łada, DPI Darmstadt) German research – Deutsche Forschung / Badania niemieckie  (Dr. Daniel Brewing, Aachen) What the Germans should know – Was die Deutschen wissen sollten / Co Niemcy powinni wiedzieć  (Hanna Radziejowska / Dr. Mateusz Fałkowski, Instytut Pileckiego Berlin) Legal questions Juristische Folgen/ Konsekwencje prawne (13-15:30), chair: Kamil Majchrzak, Berlin Criminal persecution in Poland – Strafverfolgung in Polen / Ściganie w Polsce (Dr. Łukasz Jasiński, CBH PAN Berlin) „Polish concentration camps” – „Polnische Konzentrationslager“ / „Polskie obozy koncentracyjne” (mec. Lech Obara, Patria Nostra) Reparations – Reparationen / Reparacje (Prof. Dr. Stanisław Żerko, IZ Poznań) Ghetto pensions – Ghettorenten / Emerytury z ghet (Dr. Jan-Robert von Renesse, Landessozialgericht Essen) Panel discussion: History museums Musealisierung – Diskussionrunde / Muzealisacja – runda dyskusyjna  (16-18), […]
  • The Rule of Law the German Way

    Patria Nostra – The Rule of Law the German Way […]

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