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The Memory of Judgment
Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
Résumé
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.
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9780300084368
- ISBN-10
- 0300084366
- EAN
- 9780300084368
- Éditeur
- Yale university press (New Haven (Conn.))
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 2001
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 318
Provenance des données
- language Google Books · 8 septembre 2026
- page_count Open Library · 2 août 2026
- publication_date BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- subtitle Google Books · 8 septembre 2026
- summary Google Books · 8 septembre 2026
- title Google Books · 8 septembre 2026