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.