The Austrian Research Centre for Post-war Trials ("Zentrale österreichische Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz"/FStN), founded in 1998, is a non-profit organization for documentation and research of the judicial "coming to terms" with Nazi crimes in Austria.
Because there exists no central archives for the court records in Austria, one of FStN’s main tasks is to compile finding aids for those records, which are stored either in the provincial archives or still in the archives of the courts and state attorney offices. Parntners of the Research Centre for Post-war Trials are the Austrian State Archives and the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).
The finding aids are compiled in cooperation with the administration of justice and the provincial archives. The microfilming and digitalizing of records have been concentrated on trials concerning crimes against Jews, because these documentation projects have been carried out with Yad Vashem and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Main focus of research projects has been a comparison between Austrian and German trials of Nazi crimes on the basis of homicide verdicts. The results have been published in 2006 and 2007 in two volumes, the first dealing with Holocaust and war crimes before Austrian courts (Holocaust und Kriegsverbrechen vor Gericht: Der Fall Österreich, ed. by Thomas Albrich, Winfried R. Garscha and Martin F. Polaschek, StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Bolzano-Vienna), the second comparing the outcome of post-war judiciary with present problems of human rights protection on a European scale (Kriegsverbrechen, NS-Gewaltverbrechen und die europäische Strafjustiz von Nürnberg bis Den Haag, ed. by Heimo Halbrainer and Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Clio, Graz).

Main emphasis of FStN’s scholarly projects is to introduce the historical experience into the topical human rights discourse, to examin the applicability of post-1945 solutions for legal problems in the punishment of war crimes and crimes against humanity and thus to contribute to the preservation of this important part of the European legal heritage.