Mary Fulbrook

Reckonings

Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Fulbrook's award-winning book uses "reckoning" in the widest possible sense: to reveal the disparity between the extent of inhumanity perpetrated during the Nazi era and post-war attempts to interpret and rectify wrongs, as the consequences of violence reverberated through time. Reckonings exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the fact that the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators were never held accountable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1156g
• ISBN-13: 9780190681241
• ISBN-10: 0190681241
• Artikelnr.: 51388630

Autorenporträt

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London and the author of the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The significance of the Nazi past
Part I. Chasms: Perpetrators and victims as communities of experience
2 The explosion of state-sponsored violence
3 Microcosms of violence: Toil and terror
4 Endpoints: The machinery of extermination
5 Defining experiences
6 Silence and communication
7 Crossing thresholds
Part II. Confrontations: Perpetrators and victims in German courtrooms
8 Stages of justice
9 Redefining perpetrators: From Euthanasia to the Holocaust
10 Major concentration camp trials
11 The diffraction of guilt
12 Late, too late
Part III. Connections: Constructing links between present and past
13 Hearing the voices of victims
14 Making sense of the past, living for the present
15 Discomfort zones
16 The sins of the fathers
17 The long shadows of persecution
18 Oblivion and memorialisation
Conclusions
19 A resonant past