Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials

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Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series Eisenhower’s War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership Martin J. Medhurst, editor The Nuclear Freeze Campaign: Rhetoric and Foreign Policy in the Telepolitical Age J. Michael Hogan Mansfield and Vietnam: A Study in Rhetorical Adaptation Gregory A. Olson Truman and the Hiroshima Cult Robert P. Newman Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman, editors Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Thomas W. Benson, editor Frederick Douglass: Freedom’s Voice, 1818–1845 Gregory P. Lampe Angelina Grimké: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination Stephen Howard Browne Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy Gordon R. Mitchell Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid Kimber Charles Pearce Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination Robert Asen General Eisenhower: Ideology and Discourse Ira Chernus The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870–1875 Kirt H. Wilson Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use Robert C. Rowland and David A. Frank Darwinism, Design, and Public Education John Angus Campbell and Stephen C. Meyer, editors Religious Expression and the American Constitution Franklyn S. Haiman Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation Quentin J. Schultze Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic Randall L. Bytwerk Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment Robert E. Terrill Metaphorical World Politics Francis A. Beer and Christ’l De Landtsheer, editors The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States Angela G. Ray The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln Michael William Pfau The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process Trevor Parry-Giles Michigan State University Press East Lansing Rhetorical Vectors of Memory in National and International Holocaust Trials MAROUF A. HASIAN JR. Copyright © 2006 by Marouf A. Hasian Jr. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper). Michigan State University Press East Lansing, Michigan 48823-5245 Printed and bound in the United States of America. 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Hasian, Marouf Arif Rhetorical vectors of memory in national and international holocaust trials / Marouf A. Hasian Jr. p. cm.—(Rhetoric and public affairs series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-87013-784-6 (casebound 13dig : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-87013-784-0 (casebound 10dig : alk. paper) 1. War crime trials—Europe. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)— Historiography. I. Title. KZ1176.5.H37 2006 341.6′9—dc22 2006021698 Cover and book design by Sans Serif, Inc. Front cover upper photo depicts camp survivors, soon after liberation, awaiting their ration of potato soup. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 28, 1945. Lower photo shows defendant John Demjanjuk as he crosses his heart upon hearing the pronouncement of his death sentence. Both photos are used courtesy of the Photo Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. Martin J. Medhurst, Series Editor, Baylor University Editorial Board Denise M. Bostdorff, College of Wooster Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University G. Thomas Goodnight, University of John M. Murphy, University of Georgia Southern California Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland Robert Hariman, Northwestern University Kirt T. Wilson, University of Minnesota Marouf Aziz Hasian Jr., University of Utah David Zarefsky, Northwestern University David Henry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Barbie Zelizer, University of Pennsylvania J. Michael Hogan, Penn State University Michigan State University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative and is committed to developing and encouraging ecologically responsible publishing practices. For more information about the Green Press Initiative and the use of recycled paper in book publishing, please visit www.greenpressinitiative.org. Visit Michigan State University Press on the World Wide Web at: www.msupress.msu.edu For Milun Doskovic, Helena Zdravkovic, James P. Hedges, and Ann Bialowas four young friends who accept my eccentricities and pulled me back from the abyss ...