Crimes of the Holocaust
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Crimes of the Holocaust

The Law Confronts Hard Cases

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Crimes of the Holocaust

The Law Confronts Hard Cases

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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes. In the face of few historical and legal precedents for such war crime prosecutions, each legal action relies on the framework of its predecessors. However, this only compounds the problematic issues arising from the Nuremberg proceedings.Meticulously combing volumes of testimony and documentary information about each case, Landsman offers judicious and critical assessments of the proceedings. He levels pointed criticism at numerous elements of this relatively recent judicial invention, sparing neither judges nor counsel and remaining keenly aware of the human implications. Deftly weaving legal analysis with cultural context, Landsman offers the first rigorous examination of these problematic proceedings and proposes guideposts for contemporary tribunals. Crimes of the Holocaust is an authoritative account of the Gordian knot of genocide prosecution in the world courts, which will persist as a confounding issue as we are faced with a trial of Saddam Hussein. This volume will be compelling reading for legal scholars as well as laypersons interested in these cases and the issues they address.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780812202571
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Human Rights
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. 1. Nuremberg
  7. 2. Eichmann
  8. 3. John Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible
  9. 4. Imre Finta
  10. 5. Prospects for the Prosecution of Genocide Perpetrators
  11. Notes
  12. Index
  13. Acknowledgments