Beyond justice: the Auschwitz trial
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Beyond justice: the Auschwitz trial
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number341.69026843/0033
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]02283
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Harvard University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2005
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]336p.,index,bibliographical references
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780674016941
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
A reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past. Wittmann recounts the testimony of survivors, former SS officers and defendants - a cross section of the camp population. Concludes that the Auschwitz trial had a paradoxical result. Although the prosecution succeeded in exposing SS crimes at the camp for the first time, the public absorbed a distorted representation of the criminality of the camp system.