Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
by Mary Fulbrook
***Winner of the 2019 Wolfson History Prize***
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“She concludes that the ‘Auschwitz’ and other trials held in both Germanies in the 1960s drew public attention to the Nazi system ‘but what they did not do was bring the vast majority of those who were guilty of mass murder and collective violence to any sort of justice’. And yet, in the aftermath of these deeply flawed trials, West Germany found ways to promote the fiction that the nation of perpetrators was ‘facing the Nazi past’ to secure a better international reputation.”
Review of Reckonings by Christopher Hale in History Today, 2 February, 2019
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