Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe (eBook, PDF)

A People's Justice?
Redaktion: Bourhis, Eric Le; Voisin, Vanessa; Tcherneva, Irina

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Produktbeschreibung

The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions.

In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials against persons accused of war crimes and mass murder in Europe during the ascendancy of Nazism and the Second World War (1933-1945). Focusing on the social aspects of the demand for justice and making use of previously underexploited local and international sources, contributors put to the test the notion of "show trials" and explore a range of judicial and political cultures from Germany to the Soviet Union.

Essays uncover the expectations around accountability and forms of mobilization on the part of a range of citizens involved in the trials: survivors, witnesses, perpetrators, Nazi hunters, and civic activists. In addition to the perspective of these citizens, contributors invoke the expertise of reporters, filmmakers, historians, investigators, and prosecutors who shaped public representations of justice. These shaping efforts, the authors show, often supported the desire of political authorities to benefit from the publicity of the trials and to contain the spontaneous dissemination of information. The book's close examination of interactions between citizens and authorities thus demonstrates the extent and limits of what might be called a "coproduction" of justice, in the process shedding light on the interdependence between historical knowledge and legal prosecution of mass crimes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800108028
• Artikelnr.: 65738672

Autorenporträt

Edited by Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva and Vanessa Voisin

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Figures Introduction V. Voisin, E. Le Bourhis, and I. Tcherneva
List of Abbreviations Part I - Justice and visibility Shaping the
Spectacle: Politics and Professional Practices Chapter 1. Justice in Mantle
Coats: Shooting the Bulgarian People's Courts in Revolutionary Times,
1944-1945 Nadège Ragaru Chapter 2. The Nuremberg Trials - To Stage or Not
to Stage: Conflicting Visions and Creative Differences Sylvie
Lindeperg/Camille Noûs Chapter 3. Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices:
Staging Justice at the Nuremberg Trial Victor Barbat Disclosing Data: Doubt
and Uncertainty Chapter 4. Tensions Between Secrecy and Publicity:
Internment, Investigation, Extradition, and Convictions in the Soviet
Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1950 Enrico Heitzer and Julia Landau
Chapter 5. Concentration Camp Crimes on Trial, on TV, and in Civic
Education. Bonn 1958-1959 Götz Lachwitz Chapter 6. Law and Accountability,
Secrecy and Guilt: Soviet Trawniki Defendants' Trials, 1960-1970 David Alan
Rich Part II - Justice and social mobilization From Rumor to Testimony:
Challenges in Voluntary Social Involvement Chapter 7. Rehabilitation of
individuals suspected of collaboration: The Jewish Civic Court by the
Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1950 Katarzyna Person Chapter 8.
Risks and Results of Citizens' Commitments: The Käerovski Case in Riga,
1958-1963 Eric Le Bourhis and Irina Tcherneva Chapter 9. Mediators behind
the Scenes: The World Jewish Congress and the International Auschwitz
Committee during the Preparations for the First Auschwitz Trial in
Frankfurt Katharina Stengel Individual and Collective Advocacy Chapter 10.
Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963: Agency and the Iron Curtain Jasmin Söhner
and Máté Zombory Chapter 11. The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de
France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980 Anne Klein and Birte
Klarzyk List of Contributors Index