August Trials - The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland

About the author

Andrew Kornbluth is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former fellow of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Summary

Andrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland’s halting judicial reckoning with wartime collaboration. As evidence of popular participation in the Holocaust mounted, the government, judiciary, and citizenry turned the trials into a vehicle for salvaging a heroic vision of the past.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Kornbluth
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2021
• EAN: 9780674249134
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24913-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); LAW / Legal History, The Holocaust, Legal History, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust