Vojtěch Kyncl
PhDr., Ph.D.
Domestic project
Transnational policy and the ČSSR on the field of the prosecution of Nazi war crimes in Central Europe between 1960 and 1990
Provider: The Czech Science Foundation
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Project duration:
2015–2017
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Project ID: GA15-24851S
The prosecution of Nazi war crimes became an important political and diplomatic tool of the East Bloc countries in their ideological struggle against West Germany as of the 1960s. In addition to the moral aspect of unapplied international justice this topic was used by socialist camp to pressure on the judicial and military systems of West European countries. At the same time, the Communist regime based its justification on the eradication of Nazism in the own territory. The Research Project focuses on the work done by the Czechoslovak Government Committee on Nazi War Crime Prosecution (CCWCP), which was a joint body of criminalists, lawyers and politicians collaborating with survivors, relatives, historians, and journalists. The Committee became a point of intersection of different interests that it was supposed to harmonize for a wide range of goals of which justice was just one role to play. The unpunished Nazi war criminals constituted one of the main topics of mutual relations between Czechoslovakia (CSK), Austria (AUT), East Germany (DDR), and primarily West Germany (DEU).
