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Justice Behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Contributor(s): Finder, Gabriel (Author), Prusin, Alexander (Author)
ISBN: 1487522681     ISBN-13: 9781487522681
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
OUR PRICE:   $42.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe - General
- History | Jewish - General
- History | Holocaust
Dewey: 341.690
LCCN: 2018299308
Series: German and European Studies
Physical Information: 1" H x 14.8" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Topical - Holocaust
 
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In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Poland's role in prosecuting Nazi German criminals during the first decade and a half of the postwar era. Finder and Prusin contend that the Polish trials of Nazi war criminals were a pragmatic political response to postwar Polish society and Poles' cravings for vengeance against German Nazis. Although characterized by numerous inconsistencies, Poland's prosecutions of Nazis exhibited a fair degree of due process and resembled similar proceedings in Western democratic counties.

The authors examine reactions to the trials among Poles and Jews. Although Polish-Jewish relations were uneasy in the wake of the extremely brutal German wartime occupation of Poland, postwar Polish prosecutions of German Nazis placed emphasis on the fate of Jews during the Holocaust.

Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to approach communist Poland's judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation.


Contributor Bio(s): Finder, Gabriel: - Gabriel N. Finder is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.
Prusin, Alexander: - Alexander V. Prusin was a professor of history at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.