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Reckonings - Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Hardcover)
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Reckonings - Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the 2019
Cundill History Prize From the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
to the "stumbling stones" embedded in Berlin sidewalks, memorials
to victims of Nazi violence have proliferated across the globe.
More than a million visitors -- as many as killed there during its
operation -- now visit Auschwitz each year. There is no shortage of
commemoration of Nazi crimes. But has there been justice?
Reckonings shows persuasively that there has not. The name
"Auschwitz," for example, is often evoked to encapsulate the
Holocaust.A Yet focusing on one concentration camp, however
horrific the scale of the crimes committed there, does not capture
the myriad ways individuals became tangled up on the side of the
perpetrators, or the diversity of experiences among their victims.
And it can obscure the continuing legacies of Nazi persecution
across generations and across continents. Exploring the lives of
individuals across a spectrum of suffering and guilt -- each one
capturing one small part of the greater story -- Mary Fulbrook's
haunting and powerful book uses "reckoning" in the widest possible
sense: to reveal the disparity between the extent of inhumanity and
later attempts to interpret and rectify wrongs, as the consequences
of violent reverberated through time. From the early brutality of
political oppression and anti-Semitic policies, through the
"euthanasia" program, to the full devastation of the ghettos and
death camps, then moving across the post-war decades of selective
confrontation with perpetrators and ever-expanding recognition of
victims, Reckonings exposes the disjuncture between official myths
about "dealing with the past" and the fact that the vast majority
of Nazi perpetrators were never held accountable. In the successor
states to the Third Reich -- East Germany, West Germany, and
Austria -- prosecution varied widely and selective justice was
combined with the reintegration of former Nazis. Meanwhile, those
who had lived through this period, as well as their children, the
"second generation," continued to face the legacies of Nazism in
the private sphere - in ways often at odds with those of public
remembrance and memorials. By following the various phases of
trials and testimonies, from those immediately after the war
through succeeding decades and up to the present, Reckonings
illuminates the shifting accounts by which both perpetrators and
survivors have assessed the significance of this past for
subsequent generations, and calibrates anew the scales of justice.
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