The Fils et filles des deportes juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980 / Anne Klein and Birte Klarzyk -- Index. Justice and visibility -- A. Shaping the spectacle : politics and professional practices -- 1. Justice in mantle coats : shooting the Bulgarian People's Courts in revolutionary times, 1944-1945 / Nadege Ragaru -- 2. The Nuremberg Trials : to stage or not to stage : conflicting visions and creative differences / Sylvie Lindeperg -- 3. Evidence and Soviet rhetorical devices : staging justice at the Nuremberg Trial / Victor Barbat -- B. Disclosing data : doubt and uncertainty -- 4. Tensions between secrecy and publicity : internment, investigation, extradition, and convictions in the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany, 1945-1950 / Enrico Heitzer and Julia Landau -- 5. Concentration camp crimes on trial, on TV, and in civic education : Bonn, 1958-1959 / Gotz Lachwitz -- 6. Law and accountability, secrecy, and guilt : Soviet Trawniki Defendants' Trials, 1960-1970 / David Alan Rich -- Part two : Justice and social mobilization -- A. From rumor to testimony : challenges in voluntary social involvement -- 7. Rehabilitation of individuals suspected of collaboration : the Jewish Civic Court under the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1950 / Katarzyna Person -- 8. Risks and results of citizens' commitments : the Kacerovski Case in Riga, 1958-1963 / Eric Le Bourhis and Irina Tcherneva -- 9. Mediators behind the scenes : the World Jewish Congress and the International Auschwitz Committee during the preparations for the First Auschwitz Trial in Frankfurt / Katharina Stengel -- B. Individual and collective advocacy -- 10. Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963 : agency and the Iron Curtain / Jasmin Sohner and Mate Zombory -- 11. The Fils et filles des deportes juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980 / Anne Klein and Birte Klarzyk -- Notes on the contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials against persons accused of war crimes and mass murder in Europe during the ascendancy of Nazism and the Second World War (1933-1945). Focusing on the social aspects of the demand for justice and making use of previously underexploited local and international sources, contributors put to the test the notion of "show trials" and explore a range of judicial and political cultures from Germany to the Soviet Union. Essays uncover the expectations around accountability and forms of mobilization on the part of a range of citizens involved in the trials: survivors, witnesses, perpetrators, Nazi hunters, and civic activists. In addition to the perspective of these citizens, contributors invoke the expertise of reporters, filmmakers, historians, investigators, and prosecutors who shaped public representations of justice. These shaping efforts, the authors show, often supported the desire of political authorities to benefit from the publicity of the trials and to contain the spontaneous dissemination of information. The book's close examination of interactions between citizens and authorities thus demonstrates the extent and limits of what might be called a "coproduction" of justice, in the process shedding light on the interdependence between historical knowledge and legal prosecution of mass crimes"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Rochester studies in East and Central Europe, 1528-4808
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