Sexualisierte Gewalt als Kriegswaffe

In the organizer's words:

Conversation with Monika Hauser, Regina Mühlhäuser, Ronya Othmann and Mirjam Zadoff

Gender-based violence - perpetrated by the Wehrmacht and SS, the Imperial Japanese Army and the Allied troops - was not only an integral part of warfare in past wars such as the Second World War. Even in less recent wars and armed conflicts, acts of sexual violence are not a marginal phenomenon, but a core element: in Bosnia, Iraq and Ukraine. What role does sexualized violence play in war strategy and practice? Is it deliberately used as a weapon of war or is it an inevitable product of armed conflicts, which per se have a dehumanizing and dehumanizing effect? What effects does sexualized violence have on those affected by it?

Monika Hauser (feminist activist, founder and director of medica mondiale e.V.), Regina Mühlhäuser (historian, Hamburg Institute for Social Research), Ronya Othmann (writer and journalist) will discuss these issues. Moderated by Mirjam Zadoff (Director of the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism)

The event is part of the program "1945 - 2025 Zero Hour? How we became what we are."