The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

摘要: This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of law's response to crimes Holocaust. In vivid prose it a fascinating study five exemplary proceedings - Nuremberg trial major Nazi was criminals, Israeli trials Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, French Klaus Barbie, Canadian Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. These trials, argues, were 'show trials' in broadest sense: they aimed do justice both defendants history memory With insight Douglas explores how prosecutors jurors struggled submit unprecedented legal judgment, so doing, reconcile interests pedagogy. Against attacks such critics as Hannah Arendt, defends imaginative, if flawed, responses extreme crimes. By contrast, he shows Demjanjuk Zundel turned into disasters didactic legality, obfuscating very intended illuminate. their successes shortcomings, contends, these changed our understandings process revealing value limits criminal tool.