Genocide on trial : war crime trials and the formation of Holocaust history and memory / Donald Bloxham.
Donald Bloxham
Book| Title |
Poland's Nuremberg : the seven court cases of the Supreme National Tribunal, 1946-1948. |
|---|---|
| Host Item |
Holocaust and Genocide Studies 24,1 (2010) 1-25 |
| Description |
The first Polish war crime trials took place as early as fall 1944, following the August decree on war crimes issued by the Committee for National Liberation in Lublin. Polish representatives were not admitted to serve on the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and this fact, especially given the magnitude of the Nazi destruction in Poland, drove Poland to establish its own Supreme National Tribunal (NTN). In 1946-48 the NTN heard the cases of 49 Nazi perpetrators the genocide of Jews in Poland and the extermination camps were in the focus of the proceedings. The NTN trials were not flawless in their administration of justice, e.g. the stipulation of the illegality of the Nazi regime and the use of such concepts as criminal association and criminal intent made all German functionaries who had served in Poland war criminals. Nevertheless, the NTN's proceedings applied conventional legal standards comparable to those used in Western courts and investigated each case comprehensively on its own merits. The trials of 1946-48 also had a political goal: to enhance the legitimacy of the communist government within Poland and to show the outer word that postwar Poland functioned according to international legal norms. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
990004929520705171 |
| Links |
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