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- Lessons and Legacies V: The Holocaust and Justice
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: Lessons & Legacies
summary
How can one link the Holocaust and justice, given the enormity of the Holocaust? Is justice even possible for a crime of such magnitude, and if so, what kind of justice? Weighing these questions and their implications, a group of distinguished scholars attempts to untangle the complex and often contradictory conjunction of the Holocaust and justice.
Seeking a historical context, the contributors ask, What were the political, social, psychological, and ideological prerequisites for this tragedy? Considering the courts and trials both during and immediately after World War II, and recent cases against aging perpetrators, the contributors examine the legal circumstances for trying to provide justice, the dimming impact of passing time, and other issues that complicate litigation. Their inquiry extends to questions about memory--how it is shaped and reshaped and whether it can be reliable--and about the re-creation of events of the Holocaust by a second generation. Does reassembling the evidence through the lenses of a later generation provide a deeper understanding, and does this understanding include a sense of justice accomplished?
Seeking a historical context, the contributors ask, What were the political, social, psychological, and ideological prerequisites for this tragedy? Considering the courts and trials both during and immediately after World War II, and recent cases against aging perpetrators, the contributors examine the legal circumstances for trying to provide justice, the dimming impact of passing time, and other issues that complicate litigation. Their inquiry extends to questions about memory--how it is shaped and reshaped and whether it can be reliable--and about the re-creation of events of the Holocaust by a second generation. Does reassembling the evidence through the lenses of a later generation provide a deeper understanding, and does this understanding include a sense of justice accomplished?
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxiv
- I. Context
- II. Perpetrators
- The Degussa AG and the Holocaust
- pp. 140-177
- The Case against Switzerland
- pp. 178-191
- Questioning the Perpetrators
- pp. 192-212
- III. The Courts
- History and the Holocaust in the Courtroom
- pp. 215-239
- The Holocaust’s Soviet Legacies in Latvia
- pp. 268-276
- IV.Memory and Historical Perspective
- The Future of the Jews after Hitler
- pp. 313-330
- V. The Second Generation
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 397-400
Additional Information
ISBN
9780810131163
Related ISBN(s)
9780810119154, 9780810119161
MARC Record
OCLC
899261411
Pages
422
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002