The memory of judgment : making law and history in the trials of the holocaust.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2001.

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War crime trials -- Europe.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.

1. Film as witness: screening Nazi Concentration Camps before the Nuremberg Tribunal

2. The idiom of judgment: crimes against humanity

3. The father pointed to the sky: legitimacy and tortured history

4. Ada Lichtmann on the stand

5. The Court vs. the Prosecution: policing survivor testimony

6. Didactic legality and heroic memory

7. Retrials and precursors: Klaus Barbie and John Demjanjuk

8. Did six million really die?: Holocaust denial and the law

9. Historians and hearsay: the denial trials of Ernst Zundel

10. The legal imagination and traumatic history.

This book provides the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780300109849

xiii, 318 pages : 23 cm