Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People's Justice? Voisin Vanessa
Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People's Justice? Voisin Vanessa In this edited collection, sixteen historians develop a new approach to the trials…
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Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East and Central Europe: A People's Justice? Voisin Vanessa
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). In addition to the perspective of these citizens, contributors invoke the expertise of reporters, filmmakers, historians, investigators, and prosecutors who shaped public representations of 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.