Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendts work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimts Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.

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

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IntroductionNorman J.W. Goda

PART I: LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST JUSTICE

Chapter 1. Before the Law: The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt'sEichmann in JerusalemEric Kligerman

Chapter 2. Criminal Trials as Rituals of PurificationKatharina von Kellenbach

PART II: TESTIMONY AND NARRATIVE

Chapter 3. What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses Before of Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German CourtsAnna Hájková

Chapter 4. A Morality of Evil:Nazi Ethics and the Defense Strategies of German PerpetratorsKerstin von Lingen

PART III: APPROACHES TO JUSTICE IN THE KILLING FIELDS

Chapter 5. The Second Wave of Soviet Justice: The 1960s War Crimes TrialsAlexander V. Prusin

Chapter 6. Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that Category Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the PastPer Anders Rudling

Chapter 7.Convicting the Cog: The Munich Trial of John DemjanjukLawrence Douglas

PART IV: RETHINKING APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST RESTITUTION

Chapter 8.Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the HolocaustRegula Ludi

Chapter 9.Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History through US Restitution LitigationMichael J. Bazyler

Chapter 10.The Fortunate Possessor: The Case of Gustav KlimtsBeethoven FriezeSophie Lillie

PART V: RETURNING TO NUREMBERG

Chapter 11. Judging from Without: German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar JusticeJonDavid K. Wyneken

Chapter 12. Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution: Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg ExceptionTomaz Jardim

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