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  • 5 - Perpetrators on Trial: The Transnational History of Holocaust Trials

  • from Part I - History
  • Edited by Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Devin O. Pendas, Boston College
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    16 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 121-141

  • Summary

    This chapter offers a global and pan-European account of Holocaust trials, which stretch from occupied Germany immediately after the war to Australia in the 1980s, and much in between. It shows that initially crimes against Jews were not in the primary prosecutorial focus of the thousands of trials dealing with Nazi crimes across Europe, but that over the decades Holocaust-related crimes moved to the center of Nazi war crimes and criminal trials related to the Second World War. The chapter trances the evolution of Nazi trials, from an initial period of intensive prosecution in the immediate aftermath of the war, to a period of relative quiet in the 1950s, to a renewed wave of prosecutions beginning in the 1960s.

  • Introduction to Volume IV

  • Edited by Laura Jockusch, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, Devin O. Pendas, Boston College
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
    Published online:
    16 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025, pp 8-32

  • Summary

    The introduction highlights the enduring impact of the Holocaust, the global reach of its legacy, and the ways it has shaped all domains of social and cultural life. Briefly tracing the changing shape of Holocaust memory and post-Holocaust politics, it is argued that the Holocaust has become a global touchstone for thinking about mass atrocity. The Holocaust has become a master metaphor for evil, which has led to it being appropriated and misappropriated for diverse contemporary political uses in ways that are often detached from the historical event itself. The introduction suggests that the various chapters in the volume trace these developments across a range of geographical spaces and cultural practices.

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
  • Volume 4, Aftermath, Outcomes, Repercussions
  • Edited by Laura Jockusch, Devin O. Pendas
  • Published online:
    16 May 2025
    Print publication:
    12 June 2025
  • The aftermath of the Holocaust has been long and wide-reaching. Any act of mass murder and genocide leaves powerful traces: the trauma of the survivors, the challenge of punishment for the perpetrators and justice for the victims, and questions of how to properly commemorate and memorialize the loss and how to rebuild and restore. This is all the more true for the Holocaust, which has come to serve as a global cultural touchstone for evaluating mass violence. The legacy of the Holocaust has impacted every area of political and cultural life in many different countries since 1945. What is the state of aftermath studies for the Holocaust? How do we periodize the post-Holocaust landscape? Where are there continuities and where are there changes? How, when, and where has the Holocaust been globalized? In what areas did the Holocaust generate a fundamental rethinking of human relations and state institutions? And where did it not? This volume offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust around the world and demonstrates its enduring significance, from the postwar period to the present day.

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