Rethinking Holocaust justice : essays across disciplines /

Rethinking Holocaust justice : essays across disciplines / Norman J.W. Goda. - New York : Berghahn Books, (c)2018. - 1 online resource.

"This book of essays emerged from a set of meetings concerned with how scholars across disciplines might rethink the judicial reckoning with the Holocaust."--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Before the law : the poetics of justice in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Criminal trials as rituals of purification / What kind of narrative is legal testimony? : Terezín witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German curts / A morality of evil : Nazi ethics and the defense strategies of German perpetrators / The "second wave" of Soviet justice : the 1960s war crimes trials / "Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that category" / The CIA, and the airbrushing of the past / Convicting the cog : the Munich trial of John Demjanjuk / Reparations, victims, and trauma in the wake of the holocaust / Achieving a measure of justice and writing holocaust history through American restitution litigation / The fortunate possessor : the case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze / Judging from without : public pressure and postwar justice / Rough justice and the American approach to war crimes prosecution : Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg exception / Eric Kligerman -- Katharina von Kellenbach -- Anna Hájková -- Kerstin von Lingen -- Alexander V. Prusin -- Mykola Lebed -- Per Anders Rudling -- Lawrence Douglas -- Regula Ludi -- Michael J. Bazyler -- Sophie Lillie -- JonDavid K. Wyneken -- Tomaz Jardim.



9781785336980

2017051078


War crime trials--History--Europe--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.


Electronic Books.

KZ1174 / .R484 2017