Record Nr.

UNINA9910465608103321

Autore

Bloxham Donald

Titolo

Genocide on trial [[electronic resource] ] : the war crimes trials and the formation of Holocaust history and memory / / Donald Bloxham

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-925904-6

1-280-44585-8

0-19-154335-7

1-4237-8601-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

341.69

940.55

Soggetti

Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946

War crime trials - Germany - History

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Memory

Electronic books.

Europe History 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; 1. Aims and Methodology; 2. The Trial Tableau; 3. The Early Formation of Punishment Policy; 4. The Holocaust on Trial: An Overview; Part I: The Legal Prism; 1. SHAPING THE TRIALS: THE POLITICS OF TRIAL POLICY, 1945-1949; 1.1 The Theory behind the IMT Prosecution; 1.2 The IMT Defendants: Individuals and Organizations; 1.3 The Prospect of a Second International Trial; 1.4 The Political Context of the Occupation of Germany; 1.5 'The Trial that Never Was': The Aborted Second Trial of Major War Criminals

1.6 Unequal Progressions: The Courses of British and American Trial Policy from 19461.7 The Development of the OCCWC; 1.8 The OCCWC and the Foreign Office (i): The Industrialists; 1.9 The OCCWC and the Foreign Office (ii): The Military; 1.10 British Domestic Opposition to the

Trials; 1.11 The Politics of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings; 1.12 Conclusions; 2. RACE-SPECIFIC CRIMES IN PUNISHMENT AND RE-EDUCATION POLICY: THE 'JEWISH FACTOR'; 2.1 The Search for Evidence; 2.2 Deploying the Evidence: 'Hard Documents' and 'Representative Examples'

2.3 Applying 'War Crimes' and 'Crimes against Humanity'2.4 The 'Conspiracy' to Initiate War: The Tyranny of a Construct; 2.5 The 'Jewish Factor' in the Royal Warrant Trials; 2.6 Occupation Policy, Victim Specificity and Symbols of Suffering; 2.7 Conclusions; Part II: Post-War Representations and Perceptions; 3. THE LIMITS OF THE LEGAL IMAGINATION: PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF NAZI CRIMINALITY; 3.1 The Dachau Trial; 3.2 The 'Belsen' Trial; 3.3 The IMT Trial and the Camp System; 3.4 The Significance of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka; 3.5 The Absence of Aktion Reinhard (i): An Expropriation Exercise?

3.6 The Absence of Aktion Reinhard (ii): By-Passing the Camps3.7 Conclusions; 4. THE FAILURE OF THE TRIAL MEDIUM: CHARTING THE BREADTH OF NAZI CRIMINALITY; 4.1 Genocide in the Consciousness of the Postwar World: An Overview; 4.2 An Education in German Guilt; 4.3 West German Responses to the IMT Trial; 4.4 Towards the 'Final Solution of the War Criminals Question'; 4.5 The Bystanders Judge Nuremberg; 4.6 British and American 'Revisionism'; 4.7 Negating Allied Punishment Policy: Premature Releases and Political Expediency; 4.8 The Revised Rhetoric of the Wehrmacht's War; 4.9 Conclusions

Part III: The Trials and Posterity5. A NUREMBERG HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HOLOCAUST?; 5.1 Legal Omissions (i): The SS and Police; 5.2 Legal Omissions (ii): The 'Ostland' Criminals; 5.3 The Nuremberg Legacy (i): Motivation from the Nazi Elite to the Executioners; 5.4 The Nuremberg Legacy (ii): 'Extermination through Work'; 5.5 Conclusions; CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A: Charter of the International Military Tribunal, article 6; Appendix B: The defendants and organizations before the IMT; Appendix C: The subsequent Nuremberg proceedings; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O

Sommario/riassunto

When the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe. Yet as Donald Bloxham shows in this incisive new account the reality was that these proceedings failed: not only did the guilty often escape punishment but the final solution was largely written out of history in the post-war era. - ;When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what ha