Program

7. May 2019
Aula Magna, Unitelma

10.00 Greetings
Eugenio Gaudio, Rector of the University of Rome
Antonello F. Biagini, Rector of the Unitelma Sapienza
Julius H. Schoeps, Director of the Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam
Alessandro Saggioro, Director of the PhD program in History of Europe
Giovanni Solimine, Director of the Department of Modern Literature and Culture

10.30 Keynote speech

Jan T. Gross, University of Princeton
Collaborationism in Europe. A Complex History

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-13.30

Collaborationism in North and Central Europe between Past and Present
Chair: Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam

Ruta Vanagaite, Lithuania/Israel
Executioners in Lithuania: Our People

Lars Rensmann, University of Groningen
The History and Politics of Nazi Collaboration in the Netherlands: Historical Legacies, Post-War Narratives, Contemporary Debates

Alessandro Vagnini, La Sapienza – University of Rome
The Hungarian Jewish Laws and the Relations between Hungary and Germany

13.30-15.00 Lunch break

15.00-17:00

Axis Partners, Resistance and Collaborationism in Eastern and South Eastern Europe
Chair: Lars Rensmann, University of Groningen

Ivo Goldstein, University of Zagreb
Why Were the Chetniks Collaborators?

Meinolf Arens and Katerina Kakasheva, International Institute for Ethnic Group Rights and Regionalism, Munich and University of Skopje

The Case of IMRO in Aegean- and Vardar Macedonia, as well as Conflicts of Nationalities and Conflicts of Interests in German Occupied West Banat 1941-1945

Giuseppe Motta, La Sapienza – University of Rome
Beyond Nazism. Romanian Nationalists and the Jewish Question

Martina Bitunjac, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam
Croatia and Slovakia: Persecution of the Jews by Nazi Germany’s Political Allies due to Both Cooperation and Independent initiative

17:00-17:30 Coffee break

17:30-19:00

European Countries between Neutrality and Collaborationism
Chair: Elke-Vera Kotowski, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam

Fernando Clara, New University of Lisbon
“Collaborating Neutrality”? Fascist Networks and the Ambiguous Portuguese Neutrality

Gideon Botsch, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam
Propaganda, Foreign Cultural Policy, and the Establishment of pro-German Elites. The Deutsches Auslandswissenschaftliches Institut as a Coordinating Center for European Collaborationism

Valentina Sommella, University of Perugia
France Between Collaboration and Resistance. The Armistice Decision and the Montoire Meeting in the Gaullist Propaganda

Lars Dencik, Roskilde University
The Rationales Behind the Very Diverse Forms of Collaborationism with Nazi Germany in the Four Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

8 May, 2019
La Sapienza, Palazzo del Rettorato, Aula Organi Collegiali

10.00-12.00

On the Eve of the Second World War
Chair: Alessandro Vagnini, La Sapienza – University of Rome

Ester Capuzzo, La Sapienza – University of Rome
Italian Racial Laws and the Jewish Community of Fiume

Roberto Sciarrone, La Sapienza – University of Rome
Fascism and the Racial Laws. The Historical Debate in Italy Today

Gabriele Mastrolillo, La Sapienza – University of Rome
Italian Communists and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Olaf Glöckner, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam
Ukrainian Nationalist Movements and Collaborationism During World War II

12.15-12.45 Brunch – Rettorato Sapienza

12.45-13.30

Jews as Holocaust Victims and as “Traitors”
Chair: Ivo Goldstein, University of Zagreb

Serge Klarsfeld, Klarsfeld Foundation, Paris
The Most Extreme of all of the French State‘s Collaboration: The Surrender of the Jews

Julius H. Schoeps, Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam
Collaboration and Betrayal. A Dark Chapter in the History of European-Jewish Relations

13:30
Closing remarks

18:00
Exposition opening “Silent heroes. Rescuers in Europe during WWII" at the Villa Sciarra