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- Amending the Past: Europe's Holocaust Commissions and the Right to History
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Critical Human Rights
summary
During the 1990s and early 2000s in Europe, more than fifty historical commissions were created to confront, discuss, and document the genocide of the Holocaust and to address some of its unresolved injustices. Amending the Past offers the first in-depth account of these commissions, examining the complexities of reckoning with past atrocities and large-scale human rights violations.
Alexander Karn analyzes more than a dozen Holocaust commissions—in Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and elsewhere—in a comparative framework, situating each in the context of past and present politics, to evaluate their potential for promoting justice and their capacity for bringing the perspectives of rival groups more closely together. Karn also evaluates the media coverage these commissions received and probes their public reception from multiple angles.
Arguing that historical commissions have been underused as a tool for conflict management, Karn develops a program for historical mediation and moral reparation that can deepen democratic commitment and strengthen human rights in both transitional regimes and existing liberal states.
Alexander Karn analyzes more than a dozen Holocaust commissions—in Germany, Switzerland, France, Poland, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, and elsewhere—in a comparative framework, situating each in the context of past and present politics, to evaluate their potential for promoting justice and their capacity for bringing the perspectives of rival groups more closely together. Karn also evaluates the media coverage these commissions received and probes their public reception from multiple angles.
Arguing that historical commissions have been underused as a tool for conflict management, Karn develops a program for historical mediation and moral reparation that can deepen democratic commitment and strengthen human rights in both transitional regimes and existing liberal states.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Part I. National Holocaust Commissions
- Part II. Bilateral and International Commissions
- 5. Germany and Its Neighbors
- pp. 155-190
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299305536
Related ISBN(s)
9780299305505, 9780299313241
MARC Record
OCLC
917853709
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2015-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017