European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes

[2] The Hearing was organised in response to the request made by the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union on 19 April 2007.

Edited by Peter Jambrek[3] and published by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Crimes, the reports and proceedings research and investigate gross and large scale human rights violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in Europe.

Countries that were involved were: Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.

The report stated the following about Totalitarian machines: Let us mention briefly Fascism, National Socialism and Titoism in Italy, Austria and Slovenia.

The descent into barbarism has comparable structural elements: The European Parliament has proposed August 23 as a common remembrance day of Victims of Totalitarian Regimes.