The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

by Lawrence Douglas

Book Overview

This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings--the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the French trial of Klaus Barbie, and the Canadian trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. These trials, the book argues, were "show trials" in the broadest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300109849
• ISBN13: 9780300109849
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"