RT Review
T1 Nazi Crimes and the Law, Nathan Stoltzfus and Henry Friedlander, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), ix + 225 pp., cloth 70.00
JF Holocaust and genocide studies
VO 24
IS 2
SP 312
OP 314
A1 Meier, David A.
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814479848
AB The German Historical Institute's recent publication Nazi Crimes and the Law covers a range of legal and political issues from early postwar problems of prosecution of German war criminals to present-day Holocaust denial. This anthology of eleven articles drawn from a 2003 conference in Amsterdam reveals the complexity of efforts to confront the totality of Nazi crimes. Justice appears illusive and its absence is clear; no punishment can fit the crime. Consistently throughout the chapters, the reader encounters defendants' efforts to appeal to the basic legal principles that were denied their victims.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/hgs/dcq035