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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 77869522
TI  - The memory of judgment
PY  - 2001
SN  - 0300133731 9780300133738 9780300084368 0300084366 0300084366 9780300109849 0300109849
PB  - New Haven [CT]
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - War crime trials
KW  - Trials (War crimes)
KW  - Trials (Crimes against humanity)
KW  - Trials (Genocide)
KW  - Trials
KW  - Historiography.
KW  - Auschwitz-Lüge.
KW  - Collectief geheugen.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
KW  - Holocaust.
KW  - Judenvernichtung.
KW  - Kriegsverbrecherprozess.
KW  - Krigsförbrytare - andra världskriget 1939-1945.
KW  - Krigsförbrytartribunaler.
KW  - Nürnberger Prozesse.
KW  - Nürnbergprocessen 1945-1946.
KW  - Oorlogsmisdadigers.
KW  - Procès (Crimes de guerre).
KW  - Strafprocessen.
KW  - War crime trials.
KW  - War crimes trials.
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocités.
KW  - Atrocities.
KW  - Barbie, Klaus.
KW  - Eichmann, Adolf.
KW  - Zündel, Ernst.
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
KW  - 1939-1945.
KW  - Europe.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77869522
AB  - This book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings-the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the French trial of Klaus Barbie, and the Canadian trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. These trials, the book argues, were 'show trials' in the broadest sense: they aimed to do justice both to the defendants and to the history and memory of the Holocaust. Douglas explores how prosecutors and jurors struggled to submit unprecedented crimes to legal judgment, and in so doing, to reconcile the interests of justice and pedagogy. Against the attacks of such critics as Hannah Arendt, Douglas defends the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials as imaginative, if flawed, responses to extreme crimes. By contrast, he shows how the Demjanjuk and Zundel trials turned into disasters of didactic legality, obfuscating the very history they were intended to illuminate. In their successes and shortcomings, Douglas contends, these proceedings changed our understandings of both the Holocaust and the legal process-revealing the value and limits of the criminal trial as a didactic tool.
ER  -