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_aBryant, Michael S., _d1962- _e1 |
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_aEyewitness to genocide : _bthe Operation Reinhard death camp trials, 1955-1966 / _cMichael S. Bryant. |
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_aKnoxville : _bThe University of Tennessee Press, _c(c)2014. |
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_aA subject for jurisprudence: from the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial to the creation of the Ludwigsburg central office, 1956-1960 -- _tThe queen of the dead: the investigation and trial of the Belzec death camp -- _tWho killed the Jews? The Treblinka investigation and trial -- _tMurdering star: the Sobibor investigation and trial -- _tHandy-dandy justice: Nazi crimes and the self-absolution of the West German Judiciary. |
520 | 0 | _aOne of the deadliest phases of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime's "Operation Reinhard" produced three major death camps--Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor--which claimed the lives of 1.8 million Jews. In the 1960s, a small measure of justice came for those victims when a score of defendants who had been officers and guards at the camps were convicted of war crimes in West German courts. The conviction rates varied, however. While all but one of fourteen Treblinka defendants were convicted, half of the twelve Sobibor defendants escaped punishment, and only one of eight Belzec defendants was convicted. Also, despite the enormity of the crimes, the sentences were light in many cases, amounting to only a few years in prison. In this meticulous history of the Operation Reinhard trials, Michael S. Bryant examines a disturbing question: Did compromised jurists engineer acquittals or lenient punishments for proven killers? Drawing on rarely studied archival sources, Bryant concludes that the trial judges acted in good faith within the bounds of West German law. The key to successful prosecutions was eyewitness testimony. At Belzec, the near-total efficiency of the Nazi death machine meant that only one survivor could be found to testify. At Treblinka and Sobibor, however, prisoner revolts had resulted in a number of survivors who could give firsthand accounts of specific atrocities and identify participants. The courts, Bryant finds, treated these witnesses with respect and even made allowances for conflicting testimony. And when handing down sentences, the judges acted in accordance with strict legal definitions of perpetration, complicity, and action under duress. Yet, despite these findings, Bryant also shows that West German legal culture was hardly blameless during the postwar era. Though ready to convict the mostly workingclass personnel of the death camps, the Federal Republic followed policies that insulated the judicial elite from accountability for its own role in the Final Solution. While trial records show that the "bias" of West German jurists was neither direct nor personal, the structure of the system ensured that lawyers and judges themselves avoided judgment. | |
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_aWar crime trials _zGermany. |
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_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAtrocities _zPoland. |
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650 | 0 | _aOperation Reinhard, Poland, 1942-1943. | |
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_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xLaw and legislation. |
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_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _zPoland _xInfluence. |
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_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _xHistoriography. |
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_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell |