On 2 November 2016, German public TV channel MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) aired a short documentary film about the criminal complaint filed in Germany by the Platform against 67 representatives of Communist Czechoslovakia for the killing of 5 Germans on the…
Platform in the media
PRESS CONFERENCE on 26 August 2016 in Prague
Justice for victims killed during Communism Senator Jiří Šesták opened a press conference which was held under the auspices of Miluše Horská, Vice-President of the Senate on Friday, 26 August 2016 at 10.00 in the Zaháňský Salon of the Senate, Parliament of…
Inauguration of the Memorial to Hartmut Tautz in Bratislava
Bratislava, 9 August 2016. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience together with the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute and the Bratislava Self-administration Region inaugurated a memorial to eighteen-year-old Hartmut Tautz, East-German refugee from Magdeburg who was assaulted by specially trained…
Wałęsa case points to a reason for failed justice after 1989
Warsaw / Prague, 22 February 2016. The spectacular confiscation of incriminating documents by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance IPN from the widow of Communist politburo member Kiszczak has demonstrated a mechanism whereby justice for the crimes of Communism in…
Echo of the Platform letter to the Romanian President, December 2015
The Platform of European Memory and Conscience together with its Member, the Timisoara Society and László Tőkés, Member of the European Parliament, sent a letter to the President of Romania asking for the de-classification of the records of the Romanian…
Hartmut Tautz: Der ungesühnte Grenztod – Magdeburger Volksstimme, 1 September 2015
Full article “Hartmut Tautz: Der ungesühnte Grenztod” (Hartmut Tautz: The unatoned death on the border), reprinted with kind permission of the author. The article describes the life and death of Hartmut Tautz who lived in Magdeburg and discusses the initiative…
Späte Aufarbeitung – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 July 2015
Full text of the article “Späte Aufarbeitung” (Late coming to terms), reprinted with kind permission from the author. It describes the Platform’s project “JUSTICE 2.0” and the Platform’ call to the international community for international justice for the Communist crimes.…