The Memory of Judgment

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"This book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. It provides a vivid, fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings - the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the French trial of Klaus Barbie, and the Canadian trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. These trials, the book argues, were "show trials" in the broadest sense: they aimed to do justice both to the defendants and to the history and memory of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Historiography,  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),  War crime trials,  Trials, litigation,  Proces (Crimes de guerre),  Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945,  Atrocites,  Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946,  World war, 1939-1945, atrocities,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945),  World War, 1939-1945

Places: Europe