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Beyond Justice - The Auschwitz Trial (Paperback)
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Beyond Justice - The Auschwitz Trial (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 310
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In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former
guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the
largest and most public trial to take place in the country and
attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and
extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating
reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its
past. Evoking the courtroom atmosphere, Wittmann vividly recounts
the testimony of survivors, former SS officers, and defendants-a
cross-section of the camp population. Attorney General Fritz Bauer
made an extraordinary effort to put the entire Auschwitz complex on
trial, but constrained by West German murder laws, the prosecution
had to resort to standards for illegal behavior that echoed the
laws of the Third Reich. This provided a legitimacy to the Nazi
state. Only those who exceeded direct orders were convicted of
murder. This shocking ruling was reflected in the press coverage,
which focused on only the most sadistic and brutal crimes, allowing
the real atrocity at Auschwitz-mass murder in the gas chambers-to
be relegated to the background. The Auschwitz trial had a
paradoxical result. Although the prosecution succeeded in exposing
SS crimes at the camp for the first time, the public absorbed a
distorted representation of the criminality of the camp system. The
Auschwitz trial ensured that rather than coming to terms with their
Nazi past, Germans managed to delay a true reckoning with the
horror of the Holocaust.
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