Eyewitness to Genocide
The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955–1966
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12726833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Douglas (Amherst College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 478-480 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/dcv049 |
| OpenAlex | W2235101864 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
With its horrific history the subject of countless memorials and endless public discussions, Germany is the poster child for national self-reckoning. But when it comes to using retributive justice as a tool of Vergangenheitstbewältigung—confronting the past—the German legal system has accumulated a disappointing if not pitiful record. In the years immediately following the war, German courts conducted more than 4,600 trials related to crimes committed during the Nazi period—a number that sounds impressive but obscures the fact that these trials were conducted under the watchful eye of Allied zonal occupiers, and for the most part involved relatively trivial property crimes committed during the last months of the war. In the early years of the Federal Republic, proceedings against Nazi perpetrators of atrocities came to a virtual standstill. The situation improved with the creation in 1958 of the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, Ludwigsburg. All the same, in subsequent decades, courts in the Federal Republic (formerly West Germany, and today's unified Germany) have managed to convict only around 560 persons for Nazi-era killings
Archaeology · Criminology · Genocide · German · International law · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · War crime · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |