Bourhis / Tcherneva / Voisin Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe

A People’s Justice?
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-802-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bourhis, Eric Le

Tcherneva, Irina

Voisin, Vanessa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Söhner, Jasmine

Zombory, Mate

Heitzer, Enrico

Landau, Julia

Lachwitz, Götz

Barbat, Victor

Lindeperg, Sylvie

Klein, Anne

Klarzyk, Birte

Ragaru, Nadège

Rich, David A.

Person, Katarzyna

Stengel, Katarina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Figures
Introduction
V. Voisin, E. Le Bourhis, and I. Tcherneva
List of Abbreviations

Part I - Justice and visibility

Shaping the Spectacle: Politics and Professional Practices

Chapter 1. Justice in Mantle Coats: Shooting the Bulgarian People's Courts in Revolutionary Times, 1944-1945
Nadège Ragaru
Chapter 2. The Nuremberg Trials - To Stage or Not to Stage: Conflicting Visions and Creative Differences
Sylvie Lindeperg/Camille Noûs
Chapter 3. Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices: Staging Justice at the Nuremberg Trial
Victor Barbat

Disclosing Data: Doubt and Uncertainty

Chapter 4. Tensions Between Secrecy and Publicity: Internment, Investigation, Extradition, and Convictions in the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1950
Enrico Heitzer and Julia Landau
Chapter 5. Concentration Camp Crimes on Trial, on TV, and in Civic Education. Bonn 1958-1959
Götz Lachwitz
Chapter 6. Law and Accountability, Secrecy and Guilt: Soviet Trawniki Defendants' Trials, 1960-1970
David Alan Rich

Part II - Justice and social mobilization

From Rumor to Testimony: Challenges in Voluntary Social Involvement

Chapter 7. Rehabilitation of individuals suspected of collaboration: The Jewish Civic Court by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland, 1946-1950
Katarzyna Person
Chapter 8. Risks and Results of Citizens' Commitments: The Kacerovski Case in Riga, 1958-1963
Eric Le Bourhis and Irina Tcherneva
Chapter 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

Individual and Collective Advocacy
Chapter 10. Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963: Agency and the Iron Curtain
Jasmin Söhner and Máté Zombory
Chapter 11. The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980
Anne Klein and Birte Klarzyk

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bourhis Eric Le:
ERIC LE BOURHIS is associate professor at the Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO, Paris) and member of the Europe Eurasia Research Center (CREE).Tcherneva Irina:
IRINA TCHERNEVA is senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS / Eur'ORBEM, Paris.Voisin Vanessa:
VANESSA VOISIN is senior assistant professor of history at the University of Bologna (DiSCI pour Dipartimento do Storiche Culture Civiltà).Ragaru Nadège:
NADÈGE RAGARU is a Research Professor at the Centres d'études internationales (CERI), in Paris, France.