Transnationale Vergangenheitspolitik: Der Umgang mit deutschen Kriegsverbrechern in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Norbert Frei, ed. (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006), 656 pp., cloth €44.00
Since the end of the Cold War, activists, international lawyers, and political leaders have sought—with some success—to implement a model of “transitional justice” in which the prosecution of Nazi atrocities after the Second World War functions as a touchstone. Often shorthanded simply as “Nuremberg...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-99 |
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| Summary: | Since the end of the Cold War, activists, international lawyers, and political leaders have sought—with some success—to implement a model of “transitional justice” in which the prosecution of Nazi atrocities after the Second World War functions as a touchstone. Often shorthanded simply as “Nuremberg,” the postwar prosecutions of Nazi criminals frequently are held up as an example of what legalism can achieve as an instrument for democratization. On occasion, their perceived shortcomings are also highlighted as a warning against errors to be avoided. Either way, these trials are interpreted in light of present needs. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp013 |