05422nam 2200733Ia 450 991080891470332120200520144314.00-19-925904-61-280-44585-80-19-154335-71-4237-8601-7(CKB)2560000000294827(EBL)430678(OCoLC)437114983(SSID)ssj0000083076(PQKBManifestationID)11108242(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083076(PQKBWorkID)10146645(PQKB)11231876(StDuBDS)EDZ0000072333(MiAaPQ)EBC430678(Au-PeEL)EBL430678(CaPaEBR)ebr10237131(CaONFJC)MIL44585(EXLCZ)99256000000029482720010721d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGenocide on trial the war crimes trials and the formation of Holocaust history and memory /Donald Bloxham1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press20011 online resource (273 pages)0-19-820872-3 0-19-171701-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Criminals1.6 Unequal Progressions: The Courses of British and American Trial Policy from 1946; 1.7 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 Camps; 3.7 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 ConclusionsPart III: The Trials and Posterity; 5. 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; IndexWhen 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.Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946War crime trialsGermanyHistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)MemoryEuropeHistory1945-Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.War crime trialsHistory.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Memory.341.69940.55940.55Bloxham Donald266577MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808914703321Genocide on trial692794UNINA