Rethinking Holocaust justice : essays across disciplines / edited by Norman J. W. Goda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goda, Norman J. W., 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War crime trials--Europe--History--20th century.

War crime trials.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendt’s work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.

Contents:

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 curts / 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-490-9

1-78920-514-X