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Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the last seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing how different legal systems responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents and traces how the public memory of the Holocaust was formed over time.
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Forgotten Trials of the Holocaust
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the last seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing how different legal systems responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents and traces how the public memory of the Holocaust was formed over time.
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some.
This book uncovers ten “forgotten trials” of the Holocaust, selected from the many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the last seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing how different legal systems responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents and traces how the public memory of the Holocaust was formed over time.
Michael J. Bazyler is Professor of Law and The “1939” Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University.
Frank M. Tuerkheimer is a trial lawyer and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught a course on Holocaust trials both in the United States and Germany. He had previously been a federal prosecutor in New York, United States Attorney in Madison, Wisconsin, and an Associate Special Watergate Prosecutor in Washington.
Table of Contents
Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Kharkov Trial of 1943: The First Trial of the Holocaust? 2. The Trial of Pierre Laval: Criminal Collaborator or Patriot? 45 3. The Dachau Trial under U.S. Army Jurisdiction 75 4. The Trial of Amon Göth in Postwar Poland: 101 Poland’s “Nuremberg” 5. The Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials in British-Occupied 129 Germany: Women as Perpetrators, Women as Victims 6. The Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg: Did Anyone Have 159 to Follow Orders to Kill? 7. The Jewish Kapo Trials in Israel: Is There a Place for the 195 Law in the Gray Zone? 8. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: The Germans Trying 227 Germans under German Law 9. The Trial of Feodor Fedorenko: Treblinka Relived in 247 a Florida Courtroom 10. The Trial of Anthony Sawoniuk at the Old Bailey: 275 The Holocaust in the British Courtroom Conclusion 303 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 361 About the Authors
