Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus, eds. (University of Nebraska Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008), xxx + 327 pp., 5 tables, bibl., ind., pbk. 29.95
The challenge of editing a volume of essays collected from a number of scholars is to organize the contributions around a common theme so that each deepens without redundancy the reader's knowledge of the subject. In Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting Wa...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 133-136 |
| Review of: | Atrocities on trial (Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.] : Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2008) (Bryant, Michael S.)
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| Summary: | The challenge of editing a volume of essays collected from a number of scholars is to organize the contributions around a common theme so that each deepens without redundancy the reader's knowledge of the subject. In Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, editors Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus have risen to this challenge. The result is an informative, nuanced, and balanced anthology that succeeds in its ambition to clarify the history of Nazi war crimes prosecution and the omnipresent influence of political forces on the trials. The editors identify as the focus of the book the destruction of European Jewry, which serves as a springboard for exploring “the interrelation between atrocities and adjudication” (p. xiv). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq011 |