Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955–1966
With its horrific history the subject of countless memorials and endless public discussions, Germany is the poster child for national self-reckoning. But when it comes to using retributive justice as a tool of Vergangenheitstbewältigung—confronting the past—the German legal system has accumulated a...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Review |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Έτος: 2015, Τόμος: 29, Τεύχος: 3, Σελίδες: 478-480 |
| Κριτική του: | Eyewitness to genocide (Knoxville, Tenn. : Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2014) (Douglas, Lawrence)
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| Σύνοψη: | With its horrific history the subject of countless memorials and endless public discussions, Germany is the poster child for national self-reckoning. But when it comes to using retributive justice as a tool of Vergangenheitstbewältigung—confronting the past—the German legal system has accumulated a disappointing if not pitiful record., In the years immediately following the war, German courts conducted more than 4,600 trials related to crimes committed during the Nazi period—a number that sounds impressive but obscures the fact that these trials were conducted under the watchful eye of Allied zonal occupiers, and for the most part involved relatively trivial property crimes committed during the last months of the war. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv049 |