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Genocide on trial : the war crimes trials and the formation of Holocaust history and memory /

When the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of WWII they were trying not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe. Bloxham shows the reality was that these proceeedings failed.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloxham, Donald
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
War crime trials > Germany > History.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Memory.
Europe > History > 1945-
War crime trials > Germany.
Procès (Crimes de guerre) > Allemagne.
Holocauste, 1939-1945.
Europe > Histoire > 1945-
Procès de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Allemagne, 1945-1946.
Procès (Crimes de guerre) > Allemagne > Histoire.
HISTORY.
Memory
War crime trials
Europe
Germany
Oorlogsmisdaden.
Tribunalen.
Holocaust.
Gedachtenis.
Since 1939
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. AIMS AND METHODOLOGY
  • 2. THE TRIAL TABLEAU
  • 3. THE EARLY FORMATION OF PUNISHMENT POLICY
  • 4. THE HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL: AN OVERVIEW
  • Part I: The Legal Prism
  • 1. Shaping the Trials: The Politics of Trial Policy,
  • 1.1 THE THEORY BEHIND THE IMT PROSECUTION
  • 1.2 THE IMT DEFENDANTS: INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
  • 1.3 THE PROSPECT OF A SECOND INTERNATIONAL TRIAL
  • 1.4 THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY
  • 1.5 'TRIAL THAT NEVER WAS': THE ABORTED SECOND TRIAL OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS
  • 1.6 UNEQUAL PROGRESSIONS: THE COURSES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN TRIAL POLICY FROM 1946
  • 1.7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OCCWC
  • 1.8 THE OCCWC AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE: THE INDUSTRIALISTS
  • 1.9 THE OCCWC AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE: THE MILITARY
  • 1.10 BRITISH DOMESTIC OPPOSITION TO THE TRIALS
  • 1.11 THE POLITICS OF THE SUBSEQUENT NUREMBERG PROCEEDINGS
  • 1.12 CONCLUSIONS
  • 2. Race-Specific Crimes in Punishment and Re- Education Policy: The "Jewish Factor"
  • 2.1 THE SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE
  • 2.2 DEPLOYING THE EVIDENCE: 'HARD DOCUMENTS' AND 'REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLES'
  • 2.3 APPLYING 'WAR CRIMES' AND 'CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY'
  • 2.4 THE 'CONSPIRACY' TO INITIATE WAR: THE TYRANNY OF A CONSTRUCT
  • 2.5 THE 'JEWISH FACTOR' IN THE ROYAL WARRANT TRIALS
  • 2.6 OCCUPATION POLICY, VICTIM SPECIFICITY AND SYMBOLS OF SUFFERING
  • 2.7 CONCLUSIONS
  • Part II: Post-War Representations and Perceptions
  • 3. The Limits of the Legal Imagination: Plumbing the Depths of Nazi Criminality
  • 3.1 THE DACHAU TRIAL
  • 3.2 THE 'BELSEN' TRIAL
  • 3.3 THE IMT TRIAL AND THE CAMP SYSTEM
  • 3.4 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BELZEC, SOBIBOR AND TREBLINKA
  • 3.5 THE ABSENCE OF AKTION REINHARD: AN EXPROPRIATION EXERCISE?
  • 3.6 THE ABSENCE OF AKTION REINHARD: BYPASSING THE CAMPS
  • 3.7 CONCLUSIONS
  • 4. The Failure of the Trial Medium: Charting the Breadth of Nazi Criminality
  • 4.1 GENOCIDE IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE POST- WAR WORLD: AN OVERVIEW
  • 4.2 AN EDUCATION IN GERMAN GUILT
  • 4.3 WEST GERMAN RESPONSES TO THE IMT TRIAL
  • 4.4 TOWARDS THE 'FINAL SOLUTION OF THE WAR CRIMINALS QUESTION'
  • 4.5 THE BYSTANDERS JUDGE NUREMBERG
  • 4.6 BRITISH AND AMERICAN 'REVISIONISM'
  • 4.7 NEGATING ALLIED PUNISHMENT POLICY: PREMATURE RELEASES AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
  • 4.8 THE REVISED RHETORIC OF THE WEHRMACHT'S WAR
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Part III: The Trials and Posterity
  • 5. A Nuremberg Historiography of the Holocaust?
  • 5. 1 LEGAL OMISSIONS: THE SS AND POLICE
  • 5. 2 LEGAL OMISSIONS: THE 'OSTLAND' CRIMINALS
  • 5. 3 THE NUREMBERG LEGACY: MOTIVATION FROM THE NAZI ÉLITE TO THE EXECUTIONERS
  • 5. 4 THE NUREMBERG LEGACY: 'EXTERMINATION THROUGH WORK'
  • 5. 5 CONCLUSIONS
  • Conclusions
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography.