Chapter 2 Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Note on Editing xvi
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Literary and Religious Approaches to Holocaust Justice
9. Chapter 1 Before the Law The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem 21
10. Chapter 2 Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification 48
11. Part II: Testimony and Narrative
12. Chapter 3 What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses before Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German Courts 69
13. Chapter 4 A Morality of Evil Nazi Ethics and the Defense Strategies of German Perpetrators 100
14. Part III: Approaches to Justice in the Killing Fields
15. Chapter 5 The “Second Wave” of Soviet Justice The 1960s War Crimes Trials 127
16. Chapter 6 “Not Quite Klaus Barbie, but in That Category” Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past 158
17. Chapter 7 Convicting the Cog The Munich Trial of John Demjanjuk 188
18. Part IV: Rethinking Approaches to Holocaust Restitution
19. Chapter 8 Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the Holocaust 209
20. Chapter 9 Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History Through US Restitution Litigation 235
21. Chapter 10 The Fortunate Possessor The Case of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze 265
22. Part V: Return to Nuremberg
23. Chapter 11 Judging from Without German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar Justice 289
24. Chapter 12 Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg Exception 311
25. Index 324