Rethinking Holocaust Justice : : Essays across Disciplines /

Rethinking Holocaust Justice : : Essays across Disciplines / / ed. by Norman J. W. Goda.

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 at...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Bazyler, Michael J.,
Douglas, Lawrence,
Goda, Norman J.W.,
Hájková, Anna,
Jardim, Tomaz,
Kellenbach, Katharina von,
Kligerman, Eric,
Lillie, Sophie,
Lingen, Kerstin von,
Ludi, Regula,
Prusin, Alexander V.,
Rudling, Per Anders,
Wyneken, JonDavid K,
HerausgeberIn:
Goda, Norman J. W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Editing
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Literary and Religious Approaches to Holocaust Justice
  • Chapter 1 Before the Law The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • Chapter 2 Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification
  • Part II: Testimony and Narrative
  • Chapter 3 What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German Courts
  • Chapter 4 A Morality of Evil Nazi Ethics and the Defense Strategies of German Perpetrators
  • Part III: Approaches to Justice in the Killing Fields
  • Chapter 5 The “Second Wave” of Soviet Justice The 1960s War Crimes Trials
  • Chapter 6 “Not Quite Klaus Barbie, but in That Category” Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past
  • Chapter 7 Convicting the Cog The Munich Trial of John Demjanjuk
  • Part IV: Rethinking Approaches to Holocaust Restitution
  • Chapter 8 Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the Holocaust
  • Chapter 9 Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History Through US Restitution Litigation
  • Chapter 10 The Fortunate Possessor The Case of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze
  • Part V: Return to Nuremberg
  • Chapter 11 Judging from Without German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar Justice
  • Chapter 12 Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg Exception
  • Index

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