Holocaust Historiography in Context: Emergence, Challenges, Polemics and Achievements

The collection reflects the current state of research on the Holocaust and the post-war trials that followed, and is divided into three sections. Organized chronologically, the book thus begins with six essays on Nuremberg, followed by four on the German postwar trials; itconcludes with a section, by far the most varied, on the representation of the Holocaust andHolocaust memory in trials in European countries outside Germany. The essays range widelyand draw on a variety of disciplinary approaches including law, history, and film studies. Thethemes, issues, and arguments that animate the collection will undoubtedly be familiar to manyreaders: the link between war crimes trials, history, memory, and politics; the role of Nurembergin the creation of international criminal law; the role of witnesses in trials of the Holocaust;media and public perceptions of the trials and perpetrator criminality; and finally specific casesof Holocaust trials in the Soviet Union, Belgium, Poland, France, and Italy.Those familiar with the on-going debate about the purpose of war crimes trials r