Come to this court and cry : secrets and survival at the last Nazi trials
Kinstler, Linda2023
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To probe the past is to submit the memory of one's ancestors to a certain kind of trial. In this case, the trial came to me. A few years ago Linda Kinstler discovered that a man fifty years dead - a former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather - was the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation in Latvia. The proceedings threatened to pardon his crimes. They put on the line hard-won facts about the Holocaust at the precise moment that the last living survivors - the last legal witnesses - were dying. Across the world, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission, so many generations on?
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Author:
Kinstler, Linda, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781526612601 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.5318
Language:
English
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BRN:
2348328