The August trials : the Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland /

"When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kornbluth, Andrew, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Truth commissions > Poland > History > 20th century.
War crime trials > Poland > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland.
Commissions vérité et réconciliation > Pologne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Holocaust
War crime trials.
Collaborationists.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Truth commissions.
Poland > Politics and government > 1945-1980.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945.
Poland > History > Occupation, 1939-1945 > Collaborationists.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Poland.
Poland > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Pologne > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1981.
Pologne > Histoire > 1939-1945 (Occupation)
Pologne > Histoire > 1939-1945 (Occupation) > Collaborateurs.
URSS > Relations extérieures > Pologne.
Pologne > Relations extérieures > URSS.
Poland.
Soviet Union.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The country without a Quisling?
  • "There are many Cains among us"
  • Crowdsourcing genocide
  • Hearts grown brutal
  • The special courts
  • Rewriting the narrative of the past
  • Between politics and retribution
  • The district courts
  • Cold War considerations
  • The principles of socialist humanism
  • The math of amnesty
  • Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.

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