Sprawcy i sprawczynie Zagłady a podejście do sprawiedliwości w NRD w latach 1949–1963

Wendy Lower

doi:10.32927/ZZSiM.634

No. 8 (2012)

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1895-247X

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2657-3571

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2012-12-02

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Male and Female Holocaust Perpetrators and the East German Approach to Justice, 1949–1963

Wendy Lower

redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Bio

wykłada na wydziale historii w Claremont McKenna College i prowadzi jednostkę badawczą na Uniwersytecie Ludwiga Maximiliana w Monachium. Od 2009 r. bada historię zbrodni wojennych w Europie, a także kieruje projektem historii mówionej „Niemieccy świadkowie Zagłady”, realizowanym dla USHMM. Jej książka na temat zbrodniarek zostanie opublikowana w 2013 r. po angielsku oraz w kilku innych językach, w tym polskim (Wydawnictwo Czarne). We współpracy z USHMM napisała także Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine (2005); The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia (2011); wraz z Rayem Brandonem The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony and Memorialization (2008)

Claremont McKenna College, Ludwiga Maximiliana University in Munich

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 8 (2012), pages: 237-268

Publication date: 2012-12-02

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.634

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Abstract

Drawn from archives of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), and mainly the files of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and regional court records, this essay analyzes two lesser-known trials of Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust in wartime Galicia. One case features a typical German gendarme convicted but released from prison in the 1950s; the other features a married couple who shot Jews and others on an SS agricultural estate. Both cases highlight East German investigation methods and prosecutors’ use of evidence, while the second affords an opportunity to consider gendered aspects of wartime crimes and postwar trials. On the basis of these cases the author examines how evolving political considerations in the 1950s and 1960s shaped investigations, judicial process s, and sentences against Nazi perpetrators

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German Democratic Republic, Stasi, War Crimes Trials, Nazi Perpetrators, Gender, Galicia, Erich Mielke, Hilde Benjamin, Fritz Katzmann, Bruno Saemisch, Horst Petri, Erna Petri

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Lower, W. (2012). Male and Female Holocaust Perpetrators and the East German Approach to Justice, 1949–1963. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (8), 237-268. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.634

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No. 8 (2012)

ISSN:

1895-247X

eISSN:

2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2012-12-02

Dział: Studies