The Right Wrong Man : John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial / Lawrence Douglas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglas, Lawrence, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demjanjuk, John--Trials, litigation, etc.

Demjanjuk, John.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.

World War, 1939-1945.

War crime trials--Germany.

War crime trials.

War crime trials--Israel.

War crime trials--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka-only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland.An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Beginning of the End of Something

2. John in America

3. Ivan in Israel

4. Demjanjuk Redux

5. Demjanjuk in Munich

6. Was damals Recht war . . .

7. Memory into History

8. The Trial by History

9. The Right Wrong Man

Postscript

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

SOURCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400873159

1400873150

OCLC:

904144462