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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

內容簡介

內容簡介 A single word - Auschwitz - is often used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and suffering involved in what we call the Holocaust. Yet a focus on a single concentration camp - however horrific what happened there, however massively catastrophic its scale - leaves an incomplete story, a truncated history. It cannot fully communicate the myriad ways in which individuals became tangled up on the side of the perpetrators, and obscures the diversity of experiences among a wide range of victims as they struggled and died, or managed, against all odds, to survive. In the process, we also miss the continuing legacy of Nazi persecution across generations, and across continents. Mary Fulbrook's encompassing book attempts to expand our understanding, exploring the lives of individuals across a full spectrum of suffering and guilt, each one capturing one small part of the greater story. At its heart, Reckonings seeks to expose the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past," on the one hand, and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded justice, on the other. In the successor states to the Third Reich-East Germany, West Germany, and Austria - the attempts at justice varied widely in the years and decades after 1945. The Communist East German state pursued Nazi criminals and handed down severe sentences; West Germany, seeking to draw a line under the past, tended toward leniency and tolerance. Austria made nearly no reckoning at all until the 1980s, when news broke about UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's past. Following the various periods of trials and testimonials after the war, the shifting attitudes toward both perpetrators and survivors, this major book weighs heavily down on the scales of justice. The Holocaust is not mere "history," and the memorial landscape covering it barely touches the surface; beneath it churns the maelstrom of reverberations of the Nazi era. Reckonings uses the stories of those who remained below the radar of public representations, outside the media spotlight, while also situating their experiences in the changing wider contexts and settings in which they sought to make sense of unprecedented suffering. Fulbrook uses the word "reckoning" in the widest possible sense, to evoke the consequences of violence on those directly involved, but also on those affected indirectly, and how its effects have expanded almost infinitely across place and time.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Mary FulbrookDean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, University College LondonMary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London and the author of the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust.

產品目錄

產品目錄 1: Introduction: The significance of the Nazi Past Part I. Chasms: Patterns of Persectuion 2: The Explosion of State-Sponsored Violence 3: Institutionalized Murder 4: Microcosms of Violence: Polish Prisms 5: Endpoint: The Machinery of Extermination 6: Defining Experiences 7: Silence and Communication Part II. Confrontations: Landscapes of the Law 8: Transitional Justics 9: Judging Their Own: Selective Justice in the Successor States 10: From Euthanasia to Genocide 11: Major Concentration Camp Trials: Auschwitz and Beyonc 12: The Diffraction of Guilt 13: Late, Too Late Part III. Connections: Memories and Explorations 14: Hearing the Voices of Victims 15: Making Sense of the Past, Living for the Present 16: Discomfort Zones 17: The Sins of the Fathers 18: The Long Shdows of Persecution 19: Oblivion and Memorialization Conclusions 20: A Resonant Past

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