Donald M. McKale

Nazis after Hitler (eBook, ePUB)

How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The stories of thirty war criminals who escaped accountability, from a historian praised for his "well written, scrupulously researched" work ( The New York Times). This deeply researched book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust-some well-known, some obscure-who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were rarely, if ever, tried or punished for their crimes, and nearly all alleged their innocence in Germany's extermination of nearly six million European Jews. He highlights the bitter contrasts between the comfortable postwar lives of many war criminals and the enduring suffering of their victims, and how, in the face of exhaustive evidence showing their culpability, nearly all claimed ignorance of what was going on-and insisted they had done nothing wrong. "McKale ends the book with a haunting question: whether life would be different today if the Allies had pursued Holocaust criminals more aggressively after WWII. History buffs and students of the Holocaust will be fascinated." ¿ Publishers Weekly "Gripping and important reading." -Eric A. Johnson, author of What We Knew

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442213180
• Artikelnr.: 38307902

Autorenporträt

Yaël Schlick is associate adjunct professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where she teaches courses on travel writing, autobiography, and modern literature. She has published articles on nineteenth-century French and British travel writing and colonial literature, and on 20th century autobiographical narratives. She has recently co-edited a volume of essays on the figure of the coquette with Shelley King. Her translation and critical edition of Victor Segalen's Essay on Exoticism was published in 2002.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: World War II and Allied Promises
Chapter 2: Four Faces of Genocide: What Happened in the War
Chapter 3: Leaving Auschwitz
Chapter 4: A Liberation of Contrasts
Chapter 5: Soviet "Liberators"
Chapter 6: In the Custody of Leniency
Chapter 7: Nuremberg, Number Two, and the Substitute
Chapter 8: Nuremberg: "King Frank"
Chapter 9: Nuremberg: "Fred" the "Endowed Seer" and Verdicts and Sentences
Chapter 10: Poland: Occasional Trials amid a Continuing Holocaust
Chapter 11: Memory in West Germany: Long and Short
Chapter 12: Pseudo-Purges and Politics
Chapter 13: Other Trials and Amnesty
Chapter 14: Eichmann, Jerusalem, and Eichmann's Henchmen
Chapter 15: Hunting the Comfortable
Chapter 16: Four Faces Long after the War: What Didn't Happen
Chapter 17: The Post-Holocaust World