Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity

by Alain Finkielkraut

Book Overview

In 1988, in what was probably one of the last trials of a Nazi war criminal and the first of such trials to take place in France, Klaus Barbie, the notorious "Butcher of Lyon", was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison. Yet despite the memories stirred, despite the verdict, to Alain Finkielkraut the trial was a moral failure. In Remembering in Vain, Finkielkraut maintains that the Barbie trial attests to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231074646
• ISBN13: 9780231074643
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher