General Information

Author/Creator

Osiel, Mark.

Language

English.

Published

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2012, c1997.

Physical Description

x, 317 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Subject

War crime trials > Moral and ethical aspects.

War crime trials > Social aspects.

Memory > Social aspects.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Mark Osiel.

Content

Part I- How prosecution assists collective memory and how memory furthers social solidarity. Introduction -- 1. Crime, consensus, and solidarity -- 2. Solidarity through civil dissensus -- Part II. Legal shaping of collective memory: six obstacles. 3. Defendants' rights, national narrative, and liberal memory -- 4. Losing perspective, distorting history -- 5. Legal judgment as precedent and analogy -- 6. Breaking with the past, through guilt and repentance -- 7. Constructing memory with legal blueprints? -- 8. Making public memory, publicly -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Collective memory in the postwar German army.

ISBN

1560003227

9780765806635

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	341.6/9/01 OSI		Reference	-

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