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Andra världskriget 1939-1945

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In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, photographs, newspaper articles, government reports, essays, works of fiction, and film--Werner Sollors makes visceral the experiences of defeat and liberation, homelessness and repatriation, concentration camps and denazification. These tales reveal writers, visual artists, and filmmakers as well as common people struggling to express the sheer magnitude of the human catastrophe they witnessed. Some relied on traditional images of suffering and death, on Biblical scenes of the Flood and the Apocalypse. Others shaped the mangled, nightmarish landscape through abstract or surreal forms of art. Still others turned to irony and black humor to cope with the incongruities around them. Questions about guilt and complicity in a totalitarian country were raised by awareness of the Holocaust, making "After Dachau" a new epoch in Western history. The Temptation of Despair is a book about coming to terms with the mid-1940s, the contradictory emotions of a defeated people--sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience--as well as the ambiguities and paradoxes of Allied victory and occupation.

Reconstruction (1939-1951) --- Denazification. --- Social psychology --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Social psychology. --- War and literature. --- War and motion pictures. --- Besetzung --- Entnazifizierung --- Denazifiering --- Socialpsykologi. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i konsten. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 i litteraturen. --- Film och krig. --- Andra världskriget 1939-1945 --- Influence. --- Art and the war --- Literature and the war. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- historia. --- influenser. --- Reconstruction (1939-1951). --- World War (1939-1945). --- 1939-1951. --- Geschichte 1945-1948. --- Germany. --- Deutschland --- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany. --- Social psychology -- Germany. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. --- Denazification --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Influence --- Literature and the war --- Motion pictures and the war --- Besetzung. --- Entnazifizierung. --- Art and the war. --- Deutschland. --- World War, 1939-1945, in art --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Influenser. --- Historia.

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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.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- War crime trials --- Trials (War crimes) --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- Historiography. --- Auschwitz-Lüge. --- Collectief geheugen. --- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust. --- Judenvernichtung. --- Kriegsverbrecherprozess. --- Krigsförbrytare - andra världskriget 1939-1945. --- Krigsförbrytartribunaler. --- Nürnberger Prozesse. --- Nürnbergprocessen 1945-1946. --- Oorlogsmisdadigers. --- Procès (Crimes de guerre). --- Strafprocessen. --- War crime trials. --- War crimes trials. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Atrocités. --- Atrocities. --- Barbie, Klaus. --- Eichmann, Adolf. --- Zündel, Ernst. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- 1939-1945. --- Europe.