Right Wrong Man (eBook)

John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial

Lawrence Douglas (Autor)

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2016
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7315-9 (ISBN)

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Now the subject of the Netflix documentary The Devil Next DoorThe incredible story of the most convoluted legal odyssey involving Nazi war crimesIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "e;Ivan the Terrible"e; of Treblinka-only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland.An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history.

Autor

Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. His books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust and The Vices. His work has appeared in leading publications such as the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and Harper's. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 38 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: acquittal • Adolf Eichmann • Allegation • attempt • Auschwitz • auschwitz concentration camp • Bill Wasik • bureaucrat • Capital punishment • Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II • Complicity • Consideration • Conspiracy Theory • Courtroom • Crime • Crime against peace • Criminal charge • criminal justice • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • cruelty • Cullen Murphy • czechoslovakia • defendant • Deportation • Documentary • documentary evidence • Double Jeopardy • East Germany • Editing • Efraim Zuroff • Einsatzgruppen • Eli Rosenbaum • exculpatory evidence • Ex post facto law • extermination camp • Extradition • Federal Republic • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • Fritz Bauer • gas chamber • Gestapo • Hannah Arendt • Holocaust • Holocaust denial • indictment • International Law • internment • Ivan the Terrible • Jews • John Demjanjuk • Jurisdiction • Jurist • Karl Streibel • Kirsten • Klaus Barbie • Law of the United States • lawyer • lustration • manslaughter • maps of Poland • Mass murder • Mass shooting • Mateusz Morawiecki • mistaken identity • Murder • Naturalization • Nazi Collaborators • Nazi crime • Nazi Germany • Nazi Hunter • Nazism • Netflix • Nuremberg • Nuremberg Trials • Office of Special Investigations (United States Department of Justice) • Opening Statement • Operation Reinhard • Persecution • Polish prime minister • Precedent • Prisoner of War • Prosecutor • Publication • punishment • Raphael Lemkin • rebuke • show trial • Simon Wiesenthal • skepticism • Sobibór extermination camp • Special court • Statute • Statute of limitations • Telford Taylor • The Devil Next Door • Thomas Blatt • Tom Segev • Torture • Trawniki men • Treblinka • Treblinka extermination camp • trial court • Tribunal • Ulrich • United States Attorney • University of Minnesota Press • War Crime • war of aggression • West Germany • Wild wild country • Yad Vashem • Yoram Sheftel
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7315-0 / 1400873150
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7315-9 / 9781400873159