LEADER 03013cam a2200469 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20190301141636.0 007 ta 008 181218s2018 oncab b 001 0 eng d 010 2018299308 020 9781442637450 |q(hardcover) 020 1442637455 |q(hardcover) 020 1487522681 |q(paper) 020 9781487522681 |q(paper) 035 (OCoLC)on1043500598 040 ERASA |beng |cERASA |dOCLCO |dYDX |dBDX |dKSB |erda |dEYM |dVP@ |dOCLCF |dLTSCA |dTJC |dDLC |dhubpceuo 042 lccopycat 050 00 KZ1174.5 |b.F56 2018 055 0 KZ1174.5.F56 2018 082 04 341.690268 |223 100 1 Finder, Gabriel N., |eauthor. 245 10 Justice behind the Iron Curtain : |bNazis on trial in communist Poland / |cGabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin. 260 Toronto : |bUniversity of Toronto Press, |c2018. 300 xv, 377 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c23 cm. 337 unmediated 490 1 German and European Studies ; |v32 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-341) and index. 505 0 A restive society demands swift justice -- The Poles at Nuremberg -- The Supreme National Tribunal, 1946-1948 -- Himmler's men on trial, 1948-1953 -- Jews, Poles, and justice -- History and politics in the last trials, 1954-1959. 520 8 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. 650 0 War crime trials |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 War criminals |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Nazis |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 Communism |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. 700 1 Prusin, Alexander Victor, |eauthor. 830 0 German and European studies ; |v32. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6341_690268000000000_FIN |70 |8REF |9127493OSA |bOSA |d2019-03-01 |eOSA |l0 |o341.690268 FIN |r2019-03-01 |w2019-03-01 |yBK |cReference 920 01 pXA90wXG 992 01 341_690268000000000_FIN |bWVY_TQZXTRZZZZZZZZZ_KHC 966 |cIn the Research Room