Reckonings : legacies of Nazi persecution and the quest for justice
Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2018
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schlagworte: | War crime trials Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) War crime trials-Europe-History-20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-Influence Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) War crime trials ; Europe ; History ; 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Influence Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 657 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment. Cover -- Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Plates -- RECKONINGS -- 1. The Significance of the Nazi Past -- The Continuing Presence of the Nazi Past -- Exploring the Legacies of Nazi Persecution -- Reckonings -- PART I. Chasms: Patterns of Persecution -- 2. The Explosion of State-Sponsored Violence -- Auschwitz as the Epitome of Evil -- State Terror -- Peacetime Persecution -- Toward a "National Community" -- The Parting of the Ways: Expulsion and Emigration -- 3. Institutionalized Murder -- "Life Unworthy of Living" -- Vulnerable Victims and Professional Perpetrators -- The Division of Labor and Diffusion of Guilt -- 4. Microcosms of Violence: Polish Prisms -- The Expansion of the Empire of Violence: Poland -- Concentrating Suffering: Ghettoization in Łódz -- The Destruction of a Community: Mielec -- Life and Death in the Heinkel Works -- The Transformation of the Territory -- 5. Endpoints: The Machinery of Extermination -- Atrocities in the Open -- The Auschwitz Complex -- The Killing Sites of Poland -- Extermination through Work: Productivity and Profiteering -- The Many Roads to Murder -- 6. Defining Experiences -- Diversity and Shared Experiences -- Ruptures: Humiliation and Dehumanization -- Resisting Dehumanization -- Communities of the Persecuted -- 7. Silence and Communication -- The Continuation of Parallel Worlds -- Early Survivor Accounts -- Shaping the Past -- Tangled Friendships and Torn Bonds -- PART II. Confrontations: Landscapes of the Law -- 8. Transitional Justice -- Transformations -- "Victors' Justice": The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal -- Allied Successor Trials -- Elite Evasions and New Narratives -- 9. Judging Their Own Selective Justice in the Successor States -- Crimes Close to Home: Trials under Allied Occupation. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on print version record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 657 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780192539281 0192539280 9780198811237 0198811233 |