From Perpetrator to Cold-War Pawn: The Atrocities and Trial of Heinz Barth
Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 19...
| Published in: | Holocaust and genocide studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 374-399 |
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| Summary: | Drawing on extensive documentation generated by East Germany's secret police (Stasi), this article examines the case of Heinz Barth, a participant in World War II massacres at Lidice, Czechoslovakia and Oradour, France. The Stasi's lengthy investigation and interrogation of Barth in the 1980s affords rare insight into the motivations of a perpetrator who was not involved in killing Jews or POWs, and reveals the arbitrariness of the secret police in bringing former Nazis to justice. Barth's 1983 trial in East Berlin further illustrates how the East German regime's political goals influenced its judicial handling of the Nazi past. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv045 |