Hundreds of thousands of women participated in the crimes of the Nazi era. Few were ever prosecuted. This lecture examines the extent of women’s participation in Nazi-era atrocity crimes in Germany and Nazi-occupied territories in Europe. It details important variations in community and legal accountability after the war, including how issues relating to the criminal code, jurisdiction, and gender affected when and how women were held to account.
📅 15 October 2026
🕑 15:00 EEST
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Jessica Trisko Darden is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA). Her research focuses on women’s roles in non-state armed groups, political violence, and war crimes. She is the author of four books, including The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes (Yale University Press, 2026) and Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice (Stanford University Press, 2020). Dr. Trisko Darden is currently a Fellow with the Transnational Law Institute at Washington & Lee University’s School of Law and a Non-resident Fellow at the George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. She holds a PhD in Political Science from McGill University and an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
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