Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice Mary Fulbrook
Mary Fulbrook addresses the disjuncture between firmly established “official myths” about Germany’s success in “‘dealing with the past’ and the extent to which the overwhelming majority of perpetrators actually evaded the net of justice on the other” (p. 7). Despite an initial flurry of activity and...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 106-108 |
| Review of: | Reckonings (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018) (Fritzsche, Peter)
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| Summary: | Mary Fulbrook addresses the disjuncture between firmly established “official myths” about Germany’s success in “‘dealing with the past’ and the extent to which the overwhelming majority of perpetrators actually evaded the net of justice on the other” (p. 7). Despite an initial flurry of activity and public interest in the trials, the well-documented record of Nazi crimes resulted in only 6,675 convictions in the Federal Republic. No more than 164 individuals were convicted in the murder of millions of innocent civilians. Statistically this means that “each murder cost ten minutes in prison. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa007 |