Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Kharkov Trial of 1943: The First Trial of the Holocaust? 2. The Trial of Pierre Laval: Criminal Collaborator or Patriot? 45 3. The Dachau Trial under U.S. Army Jurisdiction 75 4. The Trial of Amon Goth in Postwar Poland: 101 Poland's "Nuremberg" 5. The Hamburg Ravensbruck Trials in British-Occupied 129 Germany: Women as Perpetrators, Women as Victims 6. The Einsatzgruppen Trial at Nuremberg: Did Anyone Have 159 to Follow Orders to Kill? 7. The Jewish Kapo Trials in Israel: Is There a Place for the 195 Law in the Gray Zone? 8. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: The Germans Trying 227 Germans under German Law 9. The Trial of Feodor Fedorenko: Treblinka Relived in 247 a Florida Courtroom 10. The Trial of Anthony Sawoniuk at the Old Bailey: 275 The Holocaust in the British Courtroom Conclusion 303 Notes 313 Bibliography 355 Index 361 About the Authors
Michael J. Bazyler is Professor of Law and The “1939” Society Law
Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at the Dale E. Fowler
School of Law, Chapman University.
Frank M. Tuerkheimer is a trial lawyer and Professor of Law
Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught a course on
Holocaust trials both in the United States and Germany. He had
previously been a federal prosecutor in New York, United States
Attorney in Madison, Wisconsin, and an Associate Special Watergate
Prosecutor in Washington.
"Provides an exceptionally clear, fair-minded, and helpful discussion of the efforts of far-flung jurists to bring perpetrators of the Holocaust to justice. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer bring impressive scholarly acumen and hardboiled lawyerly insight to the task of assessing the successes and shortcomings of trials that sought to submit the most unspeakable crimes to legal judgment."-Lawrence Douglas,James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought, Amherst College "Brings to the reader important trials that have fallen beneath the general public's radar. The authors, as both academics and practicing lawyers, bring a fresh and incisive approach to these trials, dissecting the strategies of the trial lawyers as well as the decision-making by the presiding judges. They manage, in each of these trials, to focus on the defendants, the victims, and the players in the courtroom scene. They present a vivid picture of the holocaust in operation, an essential undertaking as the survivor generation decreases in number. This book is worth reading for anyone interested in trials and for anyone interested in the Holocaust, and it is compelling reading for anyone interested in both."-Robert M. Morgenthau, former District Attorney, New York County "Takes the reader on a journey across nearly six decades, seven countries, and ten different judicial settings to examine a wide variety of ways in which attempts were made to bring Holocaust perpetrators to justice. The authors do not shy from assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and difficulties of each trial and the degree to which justice was served. An important contribution to the history of the judicial aftermath of the Holocaust." -Christopher R. Browning, author of Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp "An invaluable book about significant trials conducted by the United States, certain European countries, and Israel against German government officials, military officers, and non-German collaborators for the Holocaust. It will educate, expand, and enlighten every reader's knowledge about one of the most tragic events in human history, perpetrated by one of the most culturally, medically, scientifically, artistically and politically advanced civilizations the world has ever known. Bazyler and Tuerkheimer have made a most significant contribution to the study of the Holocaust, and the world's response."-Stan Levy, Founding National Director of the Bet Tzedek Holocaust Survivors Justice Network "For too long, lawyers and legal academics have relegated the Shoah to the margins and shadows of legal discourse. The killing of six million European Jews has either been treated as an extraordinary and unique circumstance beyond law, or more recently, as little more than a precursor event to the development of international criminal law. Michael J. Bazyler and Frank M. Tuerkheimer have rendered an invaluable service to legal practice and scholarship by bringing the Holocaust to the center of the legal profession and discipline. This extraordinary book, by examining the intersections and encounters between law and the Shoah in a number of jurisdictions, across a significant time period, makes it impossible for us to ignore or forget the intimate and complex relationship between law and the Holocaust."-David Fraser, author of Law After Auschwitz: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Holocaust
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