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418 Donald Bloxham
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Germany (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1996), p. 26 on Schüle. For the problems
in the system from the point of view of the later head of the Zentrale Stelle, see
A. Rückerl, ‘Staatsanwaltschaftliche Ermittlung der NS-Verbrechen – Schwierigkeiten
und Ergebnisse’, in Vergangenheitsbewältigung durch Strafverfahren?, ed. J. Weber and
P. Steinbach (Munich: Olzog, 1984), pp. 71–83.
36 Wittmann, ‘The Wheels of Justice’, 345–63.
37 M. Broszat, ‘Siegerjustiz oder strafrechtliche Selbstreinigung: Aspekte der Vergangenheitsbewältigung
der deutschen Justiz während der Besatzungszeit’, Vierteljahrshefte
für Zeitgeschichte, 29 (1981), 477–544, here 480–1; De Mildt, In the Name of the People,
pp. 30–1.
38 H. Hannover, ‘Vom Nürnberger Prozeß zum Auschwitz-Prozeß’, in Auschwitz – ein
Prozeß, ed. U. Schneider (Cologne: PapyRossa, 1994), 67–74, here 71.
39 R. Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (New York: Harper, 1961), p. 640.
40 Friedrich, Die kalte Amnestie, p. 337.
41 R. Vogel, ed., Ein Weg aus der Vergangenheit: Eine Dokumentation zur Verjährungsfrage
und zu den NS-Prozessen (Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, 1969).
42 For breakdowns of types of crime and criminal prosecuted in the BRD, see R. Reiter,
30 Jahre Justiz und NS-Verbrechen: Die Aktualität einer Urteilssammlung (Frankfurt am
Main: Peter Lang, 1998). For analysis, de Mildt, In the Name of the People, pp. 20–35.
43 R.E. Wittmann, ‘Indicting Auschwitz? The Paradox of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial’,
forthcoming in German History. Also highly critical of the public reaction to the trial,
see Hannah Arendt’s introduction to B. Naumann, Auschwitz. Bericht über die Strafsache
gegen Mulka u.a. vor dem Schwurgericht Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1968).
44 Grabitz, Täter und Gehilfen, pp. 10–11.
45 A. Wieviorka, ‘La construction de la mémoire du génocide en France’, Le Monde Juif,
149 (1993), 23–37, here p. 30.
46 Wittmann, ‘The Wheels of Justice’, pp. 367–8; G. Werle and T. Wandres, Auschwitz vor
Gericht (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1995), pp. 58–9.
47 See Langbein, Der Auschwitz-Prozess, pp. 937–91 for the chronology of the courtroom
proceedings.
48 Ibid.; Wittmann, ‘The Wheels of Justice’, pp. 365–6.
49 Including particularly Sephardim, who were held to be ignorant of the Holocaust.
See T. Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (New York: Hill and
Wang, 1994), p. 397.
50 T. Teichholz, The Trial of Ivan the Terrible: State of Israel v John Demjanjuk (New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1990); and from the point of view of Demjanjuk’s one-time
defence counsel, Y. Sheftel, Show Trial: The Conspiracy to Convict John Demjanjuk as
‘Ivan the Terrible’ (London: Gollancz, 1994).
51 A. Wieviorka, L’Ère du témoin (Paris: Plon, 1998), pp. 97–105.
52 Segev, The Seventh Million, pp. 434–6; Douglas, The Memory of Judgment, chapter 6;
Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem, p. 10.
53 R. Paxton, Vichy France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982).
54 T. Todorov, ‘Letter from Paris: the Papon Trial’, in The Papon Affair: Memory and Justice
on Trial, ed. R. Golsan (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 220.
55 For an overview, see S. Chalandon, Crimes contre l’humanité: Barbie, Touvier, Bousquet,
Papon (Paris: Plon, 1998).
56 Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome, pp. 199–216; Douglas, The Memory of Judgment, pp. 187–96.