Beyond Justice The Auschwitz Trial

Name: Beyond Justice The Auschwitz Trial
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ISBN: 9780674063877

ISBN-10: 0674063872

ISBN-13: 9780674063877

Edition: 2005

Authors: Rebecca Wittmann

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In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. It was the largest and most public trial to take place in the country and attracted international attention. Using the pretrial files and extensive trial audiotapes, Rebecca Wittmann offers a fascinating reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past.Evoking the courtroom atmosphere, Wittmann vividly recounts the testimony of survivors, former SS officers, and defendants--a cross-section of the camp population. Attorney General Fritz Bauer made an extraordinary effort to put the entire Auschwitz complex on trial, but constrained by West German…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748

Rebecca Wittmann is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.