The memory of judgment
Subtitle: making law and history in the trials of the holocaust
By: Lawrence Douglas.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven, [CT]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: War crime trials -- Europe.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Description: "This book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. It provides a vivid, 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 sense: they aimed to do justice both to the defendants and to the history and memory of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-306) and index.