The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust

by Lawrence Douglas

This book offers the first detailed examination of the law's response to the crimes of the Holocaust. It provides a vivid, fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings - the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the Israeli trials of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk, the French trial of Klaus Barbie, and the Canadian trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. These trials, the book argues, were "show trials" in the broadest they aimed to do justice both to the defendants and to the history and memory of the Holocaust.

Genres: History, European History, Holocaust, Nonfiction, War

336 pages, Hardcover

First published December 11, 1899

Reviews

[Kaylyn Ahn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book as part of the course material for my class, Holocaust Trials. I ended up quoting him in my paper as well. It is a book analyzing the didactic mission and goals of the Holocaust Trials, as well as its political and historical context.