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Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Hardcover)
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Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 (Hardcover)
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Post-war Germany has been seen as a model of 'transitional justice'
in action, where the prosecution of Nazis, most prominently in the
Nuremberg Trials, helped promote a transition to democracy.
However, this view forgets that Nazis were also prosecuted in what
became East Germany, and the story in West Germany is more
complicated than has been assumed. Revising received understanding
of how transitional justice works, Devin O. Pendas examines Nazi
trials between 1945 and 1950 to challenge assumptions about the
political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities. In East Germany,
where there were more trials and stricter sentences, and where they
grasped a broad German complicity in Nazi crimes, the trials also
helped to consolidate the emerging Stalinist dictatorship by
legitimating a new police state. Meanwhile, opponents of Nazi
prosecutions in West Germany embraced the language of fairness and
due process, which helped de-radicalise the West German judiciary
and promote democracy.
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