Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial - Their Role as Expert Witnesses

Informationen zum Autor Mathew Turner is a Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia, from where he gained his PhD. Vorwort New analysis of role of expert witnesses in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Zusammenfassung The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation's leading historians as expert witnesses - Martin Broszat, Hans Buchheim, Helmut Krausnick, and Hans-Adolf Jacobsen - appointed by the prosecution to give evidence pertaining to the historical and organisational context of the Holocaust. Following the trial, the reports of these historians were published in a bestselling book, Anatomie des SS-Staates (Anatomy of the SS State) and Mathew Turner here investigates the relationship between the trial and this publication. In recent years, more attention has been paid to the intersection between history and law that accompanies historians' entry into the courtroom. Very little, however, has been written about this intersection with a focus on a single case study. Based on original research in several German archives and first-hand interviews, Turner addresses these connections through a study of West Germany's most famous trial, and the monumental work of history produced from the engagement of historical expertise in court. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Background to Frankfurt: the IfZ, Gutachten and the Ulm Trial2. The Law Courts History: Pre-Trial Preparations3. Giving Evidence: The Historians’ Court? Or Historians Caught? 4. Judgement Day: Hofmeyer Reaches a Verdict 5. Publishing Anatomie: Gutachten to Chapters6. Responding to Anatomie: Scholar React7. Receiving Anatomie: Hoe the Book Made HistoryConclusionBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Mathew Turner, Turner Mathew, Turner Matthew
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781788310734
• ISBN: 978-1-78831-073-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: International Library of Twent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; History of Ideas, Europe, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1940 to c 1949, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater