Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950

Compares Nazi trials in East and West Germany from 1945-1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Promise and Perils of Transitional Justice; 1. Allied justice and its discontents; 2. Allied policy towards German courts; 3. Debating crimes against humanity in the West; 4. Debating democracy in the East; 5. The trials that did not happen; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Devin O. Pendas is Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965 (2010) and co-editor of Political Trials in Theory and History (2017) and Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany (2018) as well numerous articles on the history of Holocaust trials and international law.

Summary

Revising our understanding about how transitional justice works, this study analyses and compares Nazi trials in post-war East and West Germany from 1945 to 1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.

Product details

• Authors: Devin O Pendas, Devin O. Pendas, Devin O. (Boston College Pendas, Pendas Devin O.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780521871297
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87129-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, War Crimes