Jan 19, 2021
The Robert H. Jackson Center will host Francine Hirsch, historian and professor, as its Al and Marge Brown Lecturer on World War II, scheduled as a free webinar on Monday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m.
The webinar will focus on the research and history Hirsch uncovered to write her latest book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II. The book presents the first complete picture of the role of the Soviet Union in the Nuremberg Trials. Drawing on thousands of documents from the former Soviet archives, it reveals the unexpected contribution of Stalin’s Soviet Union to the International Military Tribunal and to the postwar development of international law. Hirsch is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a historian of Modern Europe with a specialization in Russia and the Soviet Union.