Rethinking Holocaust Justice

Norman J. W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews 1918-1945 (2013), Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007), and the edited volume Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches (2014).

“Focusing on such disparate and under-explored topics as corporate conduct during the Holocaust, the changing nature of European nations’ reparations practices, and the quality of postwar American military commission trials (as distinct from the IMT Nuremberg prosecution), Goda has assembled a fascinating and informative collection of essays. The book not only explores these matters, but each essay provides lavish footnotes and a detailed ‘select bibliography’ to facilitate further inquiry.” • American Historical Review“This volume is a tremendously exciting and thought-provoking exploration of understudied aspects of Holocaust justice. It fills a major lacuna in the literature.” • Katrin Paehler, author of The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg“This is an exceptional collection. It assembles interesting and often methodologically innovative chapters that contribute genuinely new knowledge to the field of Holocaust justice.” • Hilary Earl, Nipissing University

• FiguresAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsA Note on EditingIntroductionNorman J.W. GodaPART I: LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST JUSTICEChapter 1. Before the Law: The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in JerusalemEric KligermanChapter 2. Criminal Trials as Rituals of PurificationKatharina von KellenbachPART II: TESTIMONY AND NARRATIVEChapter 3. What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses Before of Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German CourtsAnna HájkováChapter 4. 
A Morality of Evil:
Nazi Ethics and the Defense Strategies of German PerpetratorsKerstin von LingenPART III: APPROACHES TO JUSTICE IN THE KILLING FIELDSChapter 5. The “Second Wave” of Soviet Justice: The 1960s War Crimes TrialsAlexander V. PrusinChapter 6. “Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that Category” Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the PastPer Anders RudlingChapter 7. Convicting the Cog: The Munich Trial of John DemjanjukLawrence DouglasPART IV: RETHINKING APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST RESTITUTIONChapter 8. Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the HolocaustRegula LudiChapter 9. Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History through US Restitution LitigationMichael J. BazylerChapter 10. The Fortunate Possessor: The Case of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven FriezeSophie LilliePART V: RETURNING TO NUREMBERGChapter 11. Judging from Without: German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar JusticeJonDavid K. WynekenChapter 12. Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution: Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg ExceptionTomaz JardimIndex