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