On the Nazi trials in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and the place of the Holocaust in them. About 15 years after the end of the war, a second wave of trials against Nazi criminals occurred in many Eastern Bloc states, which followed a different logic than the ones immediately after the war. At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s, the trials on the one hand obliged cooperation between East and West, on the other hand they were determined by the defensive attitude towards the respective opponent in the system conflict. Within the Eastern bloc, unity was to be demonstrated through a coordinated approach on the international stage, while at the same time national interests led to their own paths in criminal prosecution. The essays collected in this volume are devoted to the history of criminal trials on National Socialist crimes in Hungary, the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union after the "thaw" and ask about the preconditions and peculiarities of these proceedings. What rules applied to the trials? What goals did they pursue? And last but not least: What significance did the Holocaust have in the clarification of the crimes?
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-3-8353-5490-6
ISBN-Online
978-3-8353-8549-8
Publisher
Wallstein, Göttingen
Series
Studien zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust
Volume
8
Language
English
Pages
291
Product type
Edited Book
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
Introduction No access Pages 7 - 17 Katharina Rauschenberger, Joachim von Puttkamer, Sybille Steinbacher
Complicity and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. Confrontations with a Compromised Past No access Pages 18 - 36 Mary Fulbrook
Jewish Life in Eastern Europe after 1945. National Differences and International Similarities No access Pages 37 - 49 Jan Tomasz Gross
»This is not a Jewish question; this is a question of fascism and anti-fascism«. The Eichmann Case and the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party No access Pages 50 - 57 András Kovács
Holocaust Historian or Anti-fascist Nazi Hunter? Jenő Lévai’s Comeback at the End of the 1950s No access Pages 58 - 77 Máté Zombory
Trials of Nazi Perpetrators in the GDR in the 1960s. How Important Was the Intra-German-Context? No access Pages 78 - 91 Hermann Wentker
The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin No access Pages 92 - 113 Lorena De Vita
Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem and After. Trials in the Anti-fascist Campaigns No access Pages 114 - 133 Katharina Rauschenberger
Local Collaborators on Trial. A Transnational Case Study in 1960s Poland No access Pages 134 - 152 Audrey Kichelewski
The Second Wave of the Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi Crimes in the the 1960s. The Case of Poland No access Pages 153 - 171 Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel
Ota Kraus and Erich Kulka – Contending with the Holocaust. »To unmask what has happened here, so that it can never again be repeated!« No access Pages 172 - 193 Michael Kraus
The Cold War and Post-Holocaust Justice. Czechoslovakia during late Stalinism No access Pages 194 - 212 Jan Láníček
From the Eichmann Case to the Malloth Trial. The Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals in Czechoslovakia (1965–2005) No access Pages 213 - 228 Vojtěch Kyncl
Some Other Days in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Soviet Justice and the Perpetrators of the Holocaust No access Pages 229 - 245 Ilya A. Altman, Christina Winkler
The Foot Soldiers’ Final Justice. »Aktion Reinhard« Camp Guards’ Soviet Trials, 1960–1970 No access Pages 246 - 262 David Alan Rich
Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context. The Case of Soviet Lithuania in the 1960s No access Pages 263 - 280 Gintarė Malinauskaitė
Editors and Contributors No access Pages 281 - 282
