Law, History, and Justice

Annette Weinke is an Assistant Professor of History at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. She has previously been a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s History Department. She is the co-editor of Toward a New Moral World Order? (2013) and Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention (2017).

“Annette Weinke’s deeply researched, tightly argued, and insightful book… weaves together literatures on historical theory, the historiography of six political regimes in Germany, international human rights law, and transitional justice from the 1980s onward to tell a story larger than the sum of its parts. And she does so in a tight package, helpful to scholars and students alike… She completely persuades that collective historical memory of Germany’s twentieth century frames and shapes, if it does not actually constitute, discourse about international human rights and international criminal law well into the twenty-first century.” • Holocaust and Genocide Studies“This book is complicated, and not for the beginner. It covers much ground, and quickly. Weinke does not so much create a usable narrative as destroy usable, but unfortunately inaccurate, narratives. Her book should be required reading for anyone producing new scholarship in these fields.” • Journal of Modern History“Meticulously researched in European and US archives, [this book] is a valuable contribution to a growing field and zooms in into debates of surprising variety… In her lucid conclusion on the entanglement of history’s burden and law she gives us an overview about one century of twisting German debates and the results of moral hubris. Her book will inspire a generation of scholars working in the field and surely find its readers not only among historians and legal scholars but also in the general public as it shows debates and its underlying dilemma which are as relevant today as they were in 1920 or 1945.” • Connections: A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists“It is to be welcomed that a translation of this book is now available since it can now find its place in the growing field of international research on the history of human rights and international law. The translation into English by Nichola Evangelos Levis is faultless.” • Sehepunkte

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviationsSelect ChronologyPART I: THE HAGUE – BERLIN – VERSAILLESChapter 1. International Criminal Law before World War IChapter 2. History Management in Wartime, 1914-1919Chapter 3. Debating the Responsibility Clauses of the Peace TreatyChapter 4. The Heidelberg Association and Max Weber’s “War Guilt” InterventionChapter 5. Review IPART II: WASHINGTON – NUREMBERG – BONNChapter 6. International Law versus Human Rights?Chapter 7. Jurists as Lobbyists and HistoriansChapter 8. The Frankfurt School Goes to WarChapter 9. Hermann Jahrreiß and the Nuremberg Defense StrategyChapter 10. West Germany Joins the Genocide ConventionChapter 11. Review IIPART III: BONN – LUDWIGSBURG – JERUSALEMChapter 12. Allied Law and the German Victims’ CommunityChapter 13. West German Historians and the “Führer Order”Chapter 14. Eichmann, Arendt, and JusticeChapter 15. Review IIIPART IV: SALZBURG – BONN AND BERLINChapter 16. Samuel Huntington’s Third Wave and “Transitology”Chapter 17. The “Politics of the Past” after German UnificationChapter 18. “Mercy Before Justice?” The Amnesty Debate of 1994-95Chapter 19. Review IVConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex