The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context

The 1964 Klaipėda War Crimes Trial

Gintarė Malinauskaitė (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-60421-3 (ISBN)

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This volume aims to newly evaluate the Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War.

This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War.

By examining the 1964 Klaipėda war crimes trial in Soviet Lithuania through a microhistorical perspective, the book explores the history of the “second wave” of Soviet justice in the 1960s. It attempts to offer insight not only into how this Soviet war crimes trial was initiated and investigated, but also into how it was presented in the courtroom and channeled through the media for publicity. The book argues that the war crimes trials conducted by the Soviet Lithuanian judiciary can be on one hand perceived as an intrinsic element of Soviet ideological propaganda and, on the other, viewed as an alternative space for disclosing memories of the mass murder of Jews, offering an opposing perspective to the official Soviet politics of memory.

Intended for both an academic audience and the general public, this volume unveils an intertwined compilation of Soviet legal history, politics of retribution, memory, and media during the Thaw period.

Gintarė Malinauskaitė is a historian focusing on Holocaust research, memory studies, war crimes trials, and the history of Central and Eastern Europe. She is currently working as a research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History.

1. Introduction 2. Prehistory of the Trial: Holocaust and Its Aftermath in Skuodas 3. Pre-Trial Investigations: Judicial and Extrajudicial Activities 4. The Trial: Rendering (In)Justice and Beyond 5. Cinematic Jurisprudence: Unfinished Page of a Diary and the Trial Documentary 6. Soviet (In)Justice Goes Abroad: Media Warfare and the Cold War 7. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Zusatzinfo	18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-60421-2 / 1032604212
ISBN-13	978-1-032-60421-3 / 9781032604213
Zustand	Neuware