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Introduction

Part I — Literary and Religious Approaches to Holocaust Justice

Chapter 1 — Before the Law: The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

Chapter 2 — Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification

Part II — Testimony and Narrative

Chapter 3 — What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses before Czechosolovak, Austrian, and German Courts

Chapter 4 — A Morality of Evil: Nazi Ethics and Defense Strategies of German Perpetrators

Part III — Approaches to Justice in the Killing Fields

Chapter 5 — The "Second Wave" of Soviet Justice: The 1960s War Crimes Trials

Chapter 6 — "Not Quite Klaus Barbie, but in That Category": Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past

Chapter 7 — Convicting the Cog: The Munich Trial of John Demjanjuk

Part IV — Rethinking Approaches to Holocaust Restitution

Chapter 8 — Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the Holocaust

Chapter 9 — Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History: Through US Restitution Litigation

Chapter 10 — The Fortunate Possessor: The Case of Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze

Part V — Return to Nuremberg

Chapter 11 — Judging from Without: German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar Justice

Chapter 12 — Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution: Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg Exception

Index