The August Trials : : The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland / / Andrew Kornbluth.

The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but ended up fashioning an alibi for the past. When six years of ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new Sov...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Polish Pronunciation
  • Introduction: The Country without a Quisling?
  • 1. “There Are Many Cains among Us”
  • 2. Crowdsourcing Genocide
  • 3. Hearts Grown Brutal
  • 4. The Special Courts
  • 5. Rewriting the Narrative of the Past
  • 6. Between Politics and Retribution
  • 7. The District Courts
  • 8. Cold War Considerations
  • 9. The Principles of Socialist Humanism
  • 10. The Math of Amnesty
  • Conclusion: The Conspiracy of Memory
  • Archival Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index