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Justice Behind the Iron Curtain: Nazis on Trial in Communist Poland
Author: Gabriel Finder
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In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Polands 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, Polands 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 Polands judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation. **ReviewJustice Behind the Iron Curtain is a cogently argued and clearly presented work on the pursuit of justice in the country that suffered a bloody occupation under the Nazis only to come under Soviet control at the end of the Second World War. With expertise in East European history, Holocaust studies and legal history, Finder and Prusin tackle a topic of great significance, drawing on archival sources, memoirs, the press, and previous search by scholars in Poland and abroad. - Natalia Aleksiun, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College, NYA major work, Justice Behind the Iron Curtain fills a gap in the field, and will be of interest to both scholars and members of the general public with a keen interest in history. - Piotr Wrobel, Department of History, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, University of TorontoAbout the Author Gabriel N. Finder is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.Alexander V. Prusin was a professor of history at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
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In Justice Behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N. Finder and Alexander V. Prusin examine Polands 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, Polands 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 Polands judicial postwar confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation. **ReviewJustice Behind the Iron Curtain is a cogently argued and clearly presented work on the pursuit of justice in the country that suffered a bloody occupation under the Nazis only to come under Soviet control at the end of the Second World War. With expertise in East European history, Holocaust studies and legal history, Finder and Prusin tackle a topic of great significance, drawing on archival sources, memoirs, the press, and previous search by scholars in Poland and abroad. - Natalia Aleksiun, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro College, NYA major work, Justice Behind the Iron Curtain fills a gap in the field, and will be of interest to both scholars and members of the general public with a keen interest in history. - Piotr Wrobel, Department of History, Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, University of TorontoAbout the Author Gabriel N. Finder is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.Alexander V. Prusin was a professor of history at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
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