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The August Trials - The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland (Hardcover)
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The August Trials - The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland (Hardcover)
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The first account of the August Trials, in which postwar Poland
confronted the betrayal of Jewish citizens under Nazi rule but
ended up fashioning an alibi for the past. When six years of
ferocious resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a
devastated Poland could agree with its new Soviet rulers on little
else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their
collaborators. Determined to root out the "many Cains among us," as
a Poznan newspaper editorial put it, Poland's judicial reckoning
spawned 32,000 trials and spanned more than a decade before being
largely forgotten. Andrew Kornbluth reconstructs the story of the
August Trials, long dismissed as a Stalinist travesty, and
discovers that they were in fact a scrupulous search for the truth.
But as the process of retribution began to unearth evidence of
enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated
government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent
judiciary all struggled to salvage a purely heroic vision of the
past that could unify a nation recovering from massive upheaval.
The trials became the crucible in which the Communist state and an
unyielding society forged a foundational myth of modern Poland but
left a lasting open wound in Polish-Jewish relations. The August
Trials draws striking parallels with incomplete postwar reckonings
on both sides of the Iron Curtain, suggesting the extent to which
ethnic cleansing and its abortive judicial accounting are part of a
common European heritage. From Paris and The Hague to Warsaw and
Kyiv, the law was made to serve many different purposes, even as it
failed to secure the goal with which it is most closely associated:
justice.
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