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Abstract
Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendt’s work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.
Norman J. W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews 1918-1945 (2013), Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007), and the edited volume Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches (2014).
“This volume is a tremendously exciting and thought-provoking exploration of understudied aspects of Holocaust justice. It fills a major lacuna in the literature.” · Katrin Paehler, author of The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg
“This is an exceptional collection. It assembles interesting and often methodologically innovative chapters that contribute genuinely new knowledge to the field of Holocaust justice.” · Hilary Earl, Nipissing University
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half Title | i | ||
| Rethinking Holocaust Justice | iii | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| Figures | ix | ||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Abbreviations | xiii | ||
| Note on Editing | xvi | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part I — Literary and Religious Approaches to Holocaust Justice | 21 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Before the Law: The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem | 23 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification | 48 | ||
| Part II — Testimony and Narrative | 69 | ||
| Chapter 3 — What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses before Czechosolovak, Austrian, and German Courts | 71 | ||
| Chapter 4 — A Morality of Evil: Nazi Ethics and Defense Strategies of German Perpetrators | 100 | ||
| Part III — Approaches to Justice in the Killing Fields | 127 | ||
| Chapter 5 — The \"Second Wave\" of Soviet Justice: The 1960s War Crimes Trials | 129 | ||
| Chapter 6 — \"Not Quite Klaus Barbie, but in That Category\": Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past | 158 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Convicting the Cog: The Munich Trial of John Demjanjuk | 188 | ||
| Part IV — Rethinking Approaches to Holocaust Restitution | 209 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the Holocaust | 211 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History: Through US Restitution Litigation | 235 | ||
| Chapter 10 — The Fortunate Possessor: The Case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze | 265 | ||
| Part V — Return to Nuremberg | 289 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Judging from Without: German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar Justice | 291 | ||
| Chapter 12 — Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution: Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg Exception | 311 | ||
| Index | 324 |