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The August trials : the Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland / Andrew Kornbluth.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: JC580 .K67 2021

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    "When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"-- Provided by publisher.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Kornbluth, Andrew, 1982- author.
    Published
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021
    ©2021
    Locale
    Poland
    Soviet Union
    Pologne
    URSS
    Contents
    Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
    "There are many Cains among us"
    Crowdsourcing genocide
    Hearts grown brutal
    The special courts
    Rewriting the narrative of the past
    Between politics and retribution
    The district courts
    Cold War considerations
    The principles of socialist humanism
    The math of amnesty
    Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Introduction: The country without a Quisling? -- "There are many Cains among us" -- Crowdsourcing genocide -- Hearts grown brutal -- The special courts -- Rewriting the narrative of the past -- Between politics and retribution -- The district courts -- Cold War considerations -- The principles of socialist humanism -- The math of amnesty -- Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780674249134
    0674249135
    Physical Description
    332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects
    War crime trials--Poland--History--20th century. Truth commissions--Poland--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Poland--Politics and government--1945-1980. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Collaborationists. Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland. Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union. Commissions vérité et réconciliation--Pologne--Histoire--20e siècle. Pologne--Politique et gouvernement--1945-1981. Pologne--Histoire--1939-1945 (Occupation) Pologne--Histoire--1939-1945 (Occupation)--Collaborateurs. URSS--Relations extérieures--Pologne. Pologne--Relations extérieures--URSS. War crime trials. Collaborationists. Diplomatic relations. Politics and government. Truth commissions. Poland. Soviet Union. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Influence. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland. History.
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