Devin O Pendas

Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Compares Nazi trials in East and West Germany from 1945-1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9780521871297
• ISBN-10: 0521871298
• Artikelnr.: 59606302

Autorenporträt

Devin O. Pendas is Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965 (2010) and co-editor of Political Trials in Theory and History (2017) and Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (2018) as well numerous articles on the history of Holocaust trials and international law.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Promise and Perils of Transitional Justice
1. Allied justice and its discontents
2. Allied policy towards German courts
3. Debating crimes against humanity in the West
4. Debating democracy in the East
5. The trials that did not happen
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.