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Author Voisin, Vanessa

Title Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe : A People's Justice?
Published Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (455 p.)
Series Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe ; 29
Rochester studies in East and Central Europe.
Contents Front Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Justice and Visibility -- Justice in Mantle Coats -- The Nuremberg Trials- To Stage or Not to Stage -- Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices -- Tensions between Secrecy and Publicity -- Concentration Camp Crimes on Trial, on TV, and in Civic Education -- Law and Accountability, Secrecy and Guilt -- Part Two: Justice and Social Mobilization -- Rehabilitation of Individuals Suspected of Collaboration -- Risks and Results of Citizens' Commitments -- Mediators behind the Scenes
Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963 -- The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980 -- Contributors -- Index
Summary The thirst for post-World War II justice transcended the Cold War and mobilized diverse social groups. This is a story of their multilayered and at times conflictual interactions
Analysis Cold War
Nazi war crimes
Nazism
accountability
authorities
citizens
coproduction of justice
historical knowledge
justice demand
legal prosecution
mass murder
political cultures
post-World War II justice
social interactions
trials
war crimes
Subject War crime trials -- Europe, Eastern
War crime trials -- Europe, Central
War crimes -- Europe, Eastern
War crimes -- Europe, Central
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Atrocities
War crime trials
War crimes
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Tcherneva, Irina
Bourhis, Eric Le
Söhner, Jasmine
Zombory, Máté
Heitzer, Enrico
Landau, Julia
Lachwitz, Götz
Barbat, Victor
Lindeperg, Sylvie
ISBN 1800108028
9781800108028