TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klaus Bachmann
AU  - Christian Garuka
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2191-3307
SN  - 9783631813522
TI  - Criminalizing History
T2  - Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine
DO  - 10.3726/b16604
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058809
N2  - Why do states ban certain statements and interpretations of the past, how do they ban them and what are the practical consequences? This book offers an answer to these questions and at the same time examines, whether the respective legislation was supply-or demand-driven and how prosecutors and courts applied it. The comparison between Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Rwanda and Turkey offers several surprising insights: in most countries, memory law legislation is supply driven and imposed on a reluctant society, in some countries they target apolitical hooligans more than intellectuals or the government’s political opponents. The book also discusses, why and how liberal democracies differ from hybrid regimes in their approach to punitive memory laws and how such laws can be tailored to avoid constraints on free speech, the freedom of the press and academic freedoms.
LA  - English
ER  -