The Right Wrong Man

The Right Wrong Man

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9780691125701
Untertitel:
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Genre:
Allgemeines & Lexika
Autor:
Lawrence Douglas
Herausgeber:
University Presses
Anzahl Seiten:
352
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.01.2016
ISBN:
978-0-691-12570-1

An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Lawrence Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuks bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the laws effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history.

An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuks bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the laws effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history.

"Thoughtful."---Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel

Autorentext
Lawrence Douglas is the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College. His books include The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust and The Vices. His work has appeared in leading publications such as the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and Harper's. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Zusammenfassung
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalize


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