Bitter reckoning Israel tries Holocaust survivors as Nazi collaborators

In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a collaborator, the rider leapt off the bus, pursued by passengers intent on beating him to death. Five...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Porat, Dan, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [2019]
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists.
World War, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists > Public opinion.
War crime trials > Israel > 20th century.
Kapos > Europe > History.
Israelis > Attitudes.
Nazi concentration camp inmates as guards > Europe > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Collaborateurs.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Collaborateurs > Opinion publique.
Procès (Crimes de guerre) > Israël > 20e siècle.
Kapos > Europe > Histoire.
Israéliens > Attitudes.
Détenus gardiens de camp de concentration nazi > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Camps d'internement.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Internment camps
Public opinion
Collaborationists
Nazi concentration camp inmates as guards
Israelis > Attitudes
Kapos
War crime trials
Europe
Israel
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From revenge to retribution in post-Nazi Europe
  • Tensions among survivors in mandatory Palestine
  • The Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law
  • Preliminary court examinations
  • Weighing the actions of Jewish collaborators
  • Can a Jewish kapo commit a crime against humanity?
  • The first doubts about the kapo trials
  • Judging a Nazi and reframing collaboration
  • Absolving ordinary functionaries

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