Over many decades former judges of the Wehrmacht who managed to get into positions of high respect in the Federal Republic of Germany spread the word of an independent and mostly guiltless military judiciary. While profiting from this widely spread and actually wrong picture of the Wehrmacht some of those judges apparently didn’t care for the victims of the NS judicial branch who have been convicted until the year 2002 when the German Bundestag suspended the verdicts. In our study we analysed how deserts have been discussed in public, in the political institutions and in the scientific community after the Second World War in Germany. For those of you who are interested in finding out more about this outrage upon justice I am offering our study as a pdf file (Beware: It’s German). You can download it and give it away. You are though not allowed to change anything about the text, the layout or the file itself. If you wish to link to the study, please do not link directly to the pdf file but to this blog post.

There is also a travelling exhibition about desertion in NS Germany that we three have been visiting in Dortmund. From the 25th of October this exhibition called “Was damals Recht war…” will be available in Marburg. You can also find information about the exhibition itself as well as a time table on their website.