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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
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Before the law : the poetics of justice in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Eric Kligerman
Criminal trials as rituals of purification / Katharina von Kellenbach
What kind of narrative is legal testimony? : Terezín witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German curts / Anna Hájková
A morality of evil : Nazi ethics and the defense strategies of German perpetrators / Kerstin von Lingen
The "second wave" of Soviet justice : the 1960s war crimes trials / Alexander V. Prusin
"Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that category" / Mykola Lebed
The CIA, and the airbrushing of the past / Per Anders Rudling
Convicting the cog : the Munich trial of John Demjanjuk / Lawrence Douglas
Reparations, victims, and trauma in the wake of the holocaust / Regula Ludi
Achieving a measure of justice and writing holocaust history through American restitution litigation / Michael J. Bazyler
The fortunate possessor : the case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze / Sophie Lillie
Judging from without : public pressure and postwar justice / JonDavid K. Wyneken
Rough justice and the American approach to war crimes prosecution : Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg exception / Tomaz Jardim. - Notes
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"This book of essays emerged from a set of meetings concerned with how scholars across disciplines might rethink the judicial reckoning with the Holocaust."--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Before the law : the poetics of justice in Eichmann in Jerusalem / Eric Kligerman -- Criminal trials as rituals of purification / Katharina von Kellenbach -- What kind of narrative is legal testimony? : Terezín witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German curts / Anna Hájková -- A morality of evil : Nazi ethics and the defense strategies of German perpetrators / Kerstin von Lingen -- The "second wave" of Soviet justice : the 1960s war crimes trials / Alexander V. Prusin -- "Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that category" / Mykola Lebed -- The CIA, and the airbrushing of the past / Per Anders Rudling -- Convicting the cog : the Munich trial of John Demjanjuk / Lawrence Douglas -- Reparations, victims, and trauma in the wake of the holocaust / Regula Ludi -- Achieving a measure of justice and writing holocaust history through American restitution litigation / Michael J. Bazyler -- The fortunate possessor : the case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven frieze / Sophie Lillie -- Judging from without : public pressure and postwar justice / JonDavid K. Wyneken -- Rough justice and the American approach to war crimes prosecution : Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg exception / Tomaz Jardim.
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1785336975 - Physical Description
- xvi, 336 pages ; 24 cm
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