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The August trials : the Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kornbluth, Andrew, 1982- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Truth commissions > Poland > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland.
Poland > Politics and government > 1945-1980.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Poland.
Poland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
  • "There are many Cains among us"
  • Crowdsourcing genocide
  • Hearts grown brutal
  • The special courts
  • Rewriting the narrative of the past
  • Between politics and retribution
  • The district courts
  • Cold War considerations
  • The principles of socialist humanism
  • The math of amnesty
  • Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.