TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finder,Gabriel
AU  - Prusin,Alexander
TI  - Justice behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland 
T2  - German and European Studies
SN  - 9781442637450
AV  - KZ1174.5.F56 2018 F55 2018eb
U1  - 341.690268 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Communism
KW  - Poland
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Nazis
KW  - War crime trials
KW  - War criminals
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Holocaust
KW  - Jewish
KW  - Nazism
KW  - World War II
KW  - communism
KW  - law
KW  - memory
KW  - postwar
KW  - war crimes trials
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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ER  -