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Democracy, Nazi Trials and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950
Revising our understanding about how transitional justice works, this study analyses and compares Nazi trials in post-war East and West Germany from 1945 to 1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.
Genocide in Comparative Perspective
Genocide in Comparative Perspective offers a concise introduction to genocide in modern world history. It emphasizes the transnational dimensions of the phenomenon, looking at the way in which victim and perpetrator groups have lived and died across borders and the way regional and international rivalries facilitated mass murder. The book explores genocide as a historical phenomenon, rather than a legal concept; it breaks new ground by moving beyond a simplistic, one-cause interpretation towards a more sophisticated model that considers both negligent and deliberate genocides of various types. Genocide in Comparative Perspective looks at a range of genocide case studies in order to provide students with comprehensive global coverage of the topic, including: - The Holocaust - Cambodia - Armenia - Indonesia - The Americas - Liberia - Sierra Leone - Central Africa - Stalinist Russia - Maoist China This book is the essential introduction to the history of genocide in one succinct, readable volume.
The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965
Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this book provides a comprehensive history of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.
Beyond the Racial State
The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.
Political Trials in Theory and History
From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.
A Companion to the Holocaust
Provides a cutting-edge, nuanced, and multi-disciplinary picture of the Holocaust from local, transnational, continental, and global perspectives Holocaust Studies is a dynamic field that encompasses discussions on human behavior, extremity, and moral action. A diverse range of disciplines – history, philosophy, literature, social psychology, anthropology, geography, amongst others – continue to make important contributions to its scholarship. A Companion to the Holocaust provides exciting commentaries on current and emerging debates and identifies new connections for research. The text incorporates new language, geographies, and approaches to address the precursors of the Holocaust and ...
Der Auschwitz-Prozess
Die deutsche Vergangenheit vor Gericht Im Winter 1963 begann vor den Augen der Weltöffentlichkeit der erste Auschwitz-Prozess, die größte und wichtigste juristische Aufarbeitung des Holocaust. Devin Pendas erzählt auf Basis umfangreicher Quellenforschung die Geschichte dieses Verfahrens, das die Öffentlichkeit spaltete und bei dem nicht nur 22 NS-Täter, sondern auch die deutsche Vergangenheit vor Gericht standen. Viele Jahre mussten vergehen, bis eine deutsche Staatsanwaltschaft nach dem Krieg erstmals umfassende Ermittlungen gegen die Verbrechen einleitete, die im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz begangen worden waren. Es sollte der größte Strafprozess der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte ...
Justice Behind the Iron Curtain
In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties. The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust. Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.
The Malmedy Massacre
During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgium—the deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies
Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asi...
