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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
RECKONINGS
Plates
1. The Significance of the Nazi Past
The Continuing Presence of the Nazi Past
Exploring the Legacies of Nazi Persecution
Reckonings
Part I. Chasms: Patterns of Persecution
2. The Explosion of State-Sponsored Violence
Auschwitz as the Epitome of Evil
State Terror
Peacetime Persecution
Toward a “National Community”
The Parting of the Ways: Expulsion and Emigration
3. Institutionalized Murder
“Life Unworthy of Living”
Vulnerable Victims and Professional Perpetrators
The Division of Labor and Diffusion of Guilt
4. Microcosms of Violence
The Expansion of the Empire of Violence: Poland
Concentrating Suffering: Ghettoization in Łódz´
The Destruction of a Community: Mielec
Life and Death in the Heinkel Works
The Transformation of the Territory
5. Endpoints
Atrocities in the Open
The Auschwitz Complex
The Killing Sites of Poland
Extermination through Work: Productivity and Profiteering
The Many Roads to Murder
6. Defining Experiences
Diversity and Shared Experiences
Ruptures: Humiliation and Dehumanization
Resisting Dehumanization
Communities of the Persecuted
7. Silence and Communication
The Continuation of Parallel Worlds
Early Survivor Accounts
Shaping the Past
Tangled Friendships and Torn Bonds
Part II. Confrontations: Landscapes of the Law
8. Transitional Justice
Transformations
“Victors’ Justice”: The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal
Allied Successor Trials
Elite Evasions and New Narratives
9. Judging Their Own
Crimes Close to Home: Trials under Allied Occupation
Politicization and Partial Prosecution: East Germany
Sympathies, Subjectivities, and the Law: West Germany
Abstaining from Justice: Austria
10. From Euthanasia to Genocide
Early Euthanasia Trials
Changing Perspectives
Shifts in Focus
The Significance of Evil: The Eichmann Trial
11. Major Concentration Camp Trials
Auschwitz on Trial
The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials
The Majdanek Trial
12. The Diffraction of Guilt
Mielec Perpetrators: Divided Sympathies in East and West
The De˛bica SS: Rehearsed Defenses and Unreliable Victims
The Variable Weight of the Evidence in East and West
The Commandant of Mielec: The Fading Significance of Victim Testimony
13. Late, Too Late
“Making Good Again”
After Demjanjuk: The Decline and Resurrection of the Witness
The Records of Justice
Part III. Connections: Memories and Explorations
14. Hearing the Voices of Victims
The Era of the Survivor
Varieties of Victimhood
Awkward Audiences and Shades of Shame
15. Making Sense of the Past, Living for the Present
Self-Distancing as Self-Preservation
Life Stages and Changing Stories
Selective Silencing and Individual Differences
Self-Discovery: Child Survivors
16. Discomfort Zones
“Ignorance and Innocence”: Self-Distancing as Self-Justification
At the Gates of Evil: A Schoolteacher’s Tale
The Guilt of Others
17. The Sins of the Fathers
Reframing the Past: From Mielec Perpetrator to GDR Victim
Selective Exploration: From the De¸bica SS to the West German Self
Public Knowledge: The Children of Prominent Nazis
The Rhythms of Shame
Family Dynamics: Revelations and Tensions
Uncomfortable Identities and Missions for the Future
Themes and Variations in Living with the Family Past
18. The Long Shadows of Persecution
Defining the Second Generation
Inescapable Legacies
Afterness
Unplaced
Returns to the Unknown
The Quest for Mutual Understanding
19. Oblivion and Memorialization
International Symbol and “Site of All Evil”: Auschwitz
Varieties of Remembrance and Neglect: Killing Sites in Poland
The Commemoration of Shame: Berlin and Beyond
Contested Victimhood and Marginalized Victims
Situating the Sites
Conclusions
20. A Resonant Past
State-Sanctioned Violence and the Uneven Distribution of Guilt
The Inadequacies of Justice and Communities of Experience after the War
The Generational Half-Life of a Contaminated Past
From Cacophony to Chorus
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Index