This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the
law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it
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. With insight Lawrence 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 2005 |
| First published: |
May 2005 |
| Authors: |
Lawrence Douglas
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-10984-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-300-10984-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780300109849 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(11)
