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Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial : their role as expert witnesses /
"The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a Holocaust perpetrator trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation's leading historians as expert witnesses - Mart...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2018.
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| Colección: | International library of twentieth century history ;
122. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Author Biography; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Expert Witness Historian; Plausible versus Probable: History and Law; Locating the Paradox: Historical Knowledge as Legal Evidence; The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Experts: Existing Literature; Praising Anatomy; Book Structure and Chapter Synopsis; 1. Background to Frankfurt: The IfZ, Gutachten and the Ulm Trial; Gutachten and the Institut fur̈ Zeitgeschichte; The Ulm Einsatzkommando Trial; 2. The Law Courts History: Pre-Trial Preparations
- A Perfect Sturm: Bauer and the IfZ, 1959-1962A Perfect Sturm: Bauer and the IfZ, 1959-1962; Drafting the Gutachten; 'Gutachten are worthless here': A Judge's Pre-Trial Verdict; 3. Giving Evidence: The Historians' Court? Or, Historians Caught?; 'An Historical Seminar': Buchheim, 7 February 1964; The Director's Drama: Krausnick, 17 February 1964; 'Compassion has no place': Broszat, 21 and 28 February 1964; Buchheim Returns, 3 July 1964; The Last Chapter: Jacobsen, 14 August 1964; 4. Judgement Day: Hofmeyer Reaches a Verdict; Parting Shots: Kaul and Laternser; Hofmeyer's Final Judgement
- Judging History, Making Law: How the Historians Fared5. Publishing Anatomy: Gutachten to Chapters; The Paperback Gutachten; 'A Guide to Barbarism'; 6. Responding to Anatomy: Scholars React; Reviewing Anatomy: English Take the Lead; Dissecting Anatomy: The Future of the Past; The 'Burning Questions': Herzfeld and Ainsztein; 7. Receiving Anatomy: How the Book Made History; Laternser's Lies; The Road to Auschwitz; The Debate Begins: Krausnick versus Broszat; Creating History, Informing Research; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index