Rethinking Holocaust justice: essays across disciplines

Before the law : the poetics of justice in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Eric Kligerman -- Criminal trials as rituals of purification / Katharina von Kellenbach -- What kind of narrative is legal testimony? : Terezín witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German courts / Anna Hájková -- A morali...

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Other Authors: Goda, Norman J. W. (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books 2018
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Online Access:Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz497250330inh.htm
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Author Notes:edited by Norman J. W. Goda
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Summary:Before the law : the poetics of justice in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Eric Kligerman -- Criminal trials as rituals of purification / Katharina von Kellenbach -- What kind of narrative is legal testimony? : Terezín witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German courts / Anna Hájková -- A morality of evil : Nazi ethics and the defense strategies of German perpetrators / Kerstin von Lingen -- The "second wave" of Soviet justice : the 1960s war crimes trials / Alexander V. Prusin -- "Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that category" / Mykola Lebed -- The CIA, and the airbrushing of the past / Per Anders Rudling -- Convicting the cog : the Munich trial of John Demjanjuk / Lawrence Douglas -- Reparations, victims, and trauma in the wake of the holocaust / Regula Ludi -- Achieving a measure of justice and writing holocaust history through American restitution litigation / Michael J. Bazyler -- The fortunate possessor : the case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze / Sophie Lillie -- Judging from without : public pressure and postwar justice / JonDavid K. Wyneken -- Rough justice and the American approach to war crimes prosecution : Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg exception / Tomaz Jardim
Item Description:"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 bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9781785336973
9781789205145