Holocaust and Justice
Representation and Historiography of the Holocaust in Post-war Trials
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2011
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-965-308-353-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Holocaust was not a major issue in the thirteen Nuremberg trials conducted in Germany between 1945-1949 by the International Military Tribunal. Can the word "justice" be used to refer to trials that did not fully recognize the centrality of the Holocaust? What was the background of the postwar war crimes trials, and what was their impact on society and collective memory? How did they shape international law?
This book brings together observations on these and other issues from a broad range of international scholars on the representation of the Holocaust in the postwar trials and its historiography.
This book brings together observations on these and other issues from a broad range of international scholars on the representation of the Holocaust in the postwar trials and its historiography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jerusalem
Israel
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
18 photos
ISBN-13
978-965-308-353-0 (9789653083530)
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Content
Introduction
Part I: The Nuremberg Trials and Their Long-Range Impact
Chapter 1. The Didactic Trial: Filtering History and Memory into the Courtroom
Lawrence Douglas
Chapter 2. Prosecuting the Past in the Postwar Decade: Political Strategy and National Myth-Making
Donald Bloxham
Chapter 3. The Holocaust, Nuremberg and the Birth of Modern International Law
Michael J. Bazyler
Chapter 4. The Role of the Genocide of European Jewry in the Preparations for the Nuremberg Trials
Arieh J. Kochavi
Chapter 5. Dr. Jacob Robinson, the Institute of Jewish Affairs and the Elusive Jewish Voice in Nuremberg
Boaz Cohen
Chapter 6. The Judicial Construction of the Genocide of the Jews at Nuremberg: Witnesses on Stand and on Screen
Christian Delage
Part II: The Ambivalence of Doing Justice in the German Federal Republic
Chapter 7. Prosecutors and Historians: Holocaust Investigations and Historiography in the Federal Republic 1955-1975
Dieter Pohl
Chapter 8. Coverage of the Bergen-Belsen Trial and the Auschwitz Trial in the NWDR/NDR: The Reports of Axel Eggebrecht
Inge Marszolek
Chapter 9. Hitler's Unwilling Executioners? The Representation of the Holocaust through the Bielefeld Bialystok Trial of 1965-1967
Katrin Stoll
Chapter 10. Between Demonization and Normalization: Continuity and Change in German Perceptions of the Holocaust as Treated in Post-War Trials
Annette Weinke
Part III: Trials and Tribulations in European Countries
Chapter 11. The Belgian Trials (1945-1951)
Nico Wouters
Chapter 12. The Case of the French Railways and the Deportation of Jews in 1944
Michael R. Marrus
Chapter 13. Crime and Comprehension, Punishment and Legal Attitudes: German and Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust in Domachevo, Belarus, in the Records of Soviet, Polish, German, and British War Crimes Investigations
Martin Dean
Chapter 14. Amon Goeth's Trial in Cracow: Its Impact on Holocaust Awareness in Poland
Edyta Gawron
Chapter 15. From Kappler to Priebke: Holocaust Trials and the Seasons of Memory in Italy
Paolo Pezzino and Guri Schwarz
List of Contributors
Index of Names and Places
Part I: The Nuremberg Trials and Their Long-Range Impact
Chapter 1. The Didactic Trial: Filtering History and Memory into the Courtroom
Lawrence Douglas
Chapter 2. Prosecuting the Past in the Postwar Decade: Political Strategy and National Myth-Making
Donald Bloxham
Chapter 3. The Holocaust, Nuremberg and the Birth of Modern International Law
Michael J. Bazyler
Chapter 4. The Role of the Genocide of European Jewry in the Preparations for the Nuremberg Trials
Arieh J. Kochavi
Chapter 5. Dr. Jacob Robinson, the Institute of Jewish Affairs and the Elusive Jewish Voice in Nuremberg
Boaz Cohen
Chapter 6. The Judicial Construction of the Genocide of the Jews at Nuremberg: Witnesses on Stand and on Screen
Christian Delage
Part II: The Ambivalence of Doing Justice in the German Federal Republic
Chapter 7. Prosecutors and Historians: Holocaust Investigations and Historiography in the Federal Republic 1955-1975
Dieter Pohl
Chapter 8. Coverage of the Bergen-Belsen Trial and the Auschwitz Trial in the NWDR/NDR: The Reports of Axel Eggebrecht
Inge Marszolek
Chapter 9. Hitler's Unwilling Executioners? The Representation of the Holocaust through the Bielefeld Bialystok Trial of 1965-1967
Katrin Stoll
Chapter 10. Between Demonization and Normalization: Continuity and Change in German Perceptions of the Holocaust as Treated in Post-War Trials
Annette Weinke
Part III: Trials and Tribulations in European Countries
Chapter 11. The Belgian Trials (1945-1951)
Nico Wouters
Chapter 12. The Case of the French Railways and the Deportation of Jews in 1944
Michael R. Marrus
Chapter 13. Crime and Comprehension, Punishment and Legal Attitudes: German and Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust in Domachevo, Belarus, in the Records of Soviet, Polish, German, and British War Crimes Investigations
Martin Dean
Chapter 14. Amon Goeth's Trial in Cracow: Its Impact on Holocaust Awareness in Poland
Edyta Gawron
Chapter 15. From Kappler to Priebke: Holocaust Trials and the Seasons of Memory in Italy
Paolo Pezzino and Guri Schwarz
List of Contributors
Index of Names and Places