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Come to This Court and Cry - Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials (Paperback)
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Come to This Court and Cry - Secrets and Survival at the Last Nazi Trials (Paperback)
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‘A tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists
and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness . . .
Enthralling‘ Guardian ‘Part detective story, part family
history, part probing inquiry into how best to reckon with the
horrors of a previous century, Come to This Court and Cry is
bracingly original, beautifully written and haunting. An
astonishing book‘ Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain
To probe the past is to submit the memory of one's ancestors to a
certain kind of trial. In this case, the trial came to me. A few
years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead –
a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her
grandfather – was the subject of an ongoing criminal
investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his
crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at
the precise moment that the last living survivors – the last
legal witnesses – were dying. Across the world, Second World
War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors
have been telling their stories for the better part of a century,
and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What
responsibilities attend their transmission, so many generations on?
How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the
crime scene of history closed? In this major non-fiction debut,
Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives
of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our
uncertain century. Probing and profound, Come to this Court and Cry
is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism,
ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is
slipping out from under our feet. It asks how the stories we tell
about ourselves, our families and our nations are passed down, how
we alter them, and what they demand of us. 'Kinstler reminds us of
the dangerous instability of truth and testimony, and the urgent
need, in the twenty-first century, to keep telling the history of
the twentieth' Anne Applebaum 'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev
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