This is the second of a short series looking at how the peace was won after the Second World War through the eyes of a Nuremberg prosecutor who went on to champion and draft the ECHR. These blogs look forward to commemorative performances of Sue Casson’s Dreams of Peace & Freedom which will remember its birth from the ashes of a decimated Europe and celebrate the protections of the Convention in this its 75th anniversary year.

This is the first of a short series by Tom Blackmore that looks at how the peace was won after the Second World War through the eyes of a Nuremberg prosecutor who went to champion and draft the ECHR. They look forward to commemorative performances of Sue Casson’s Dreams of Peace & Freedom later this year which will remember its birth from the ashes of a decimated Europe and celebrate the protections of the Convention in this its’ 75th anniversary year.

Liberation in the winter of 1945 was an uncertain, messy and dangerous business. Thousands died as they danced their unsteady march in the depths of Silesian winter, as the landscape transformed from deep frozen to deep mud over the weeks of the march.

Promises are made – and simply forgotten. Once the barbarity of war has passed, the promises made at its close, mindful of a need to stop it ever recurring, become less pressing as the memory fades.