LEADER 03827cam 2200601 i 4500001 on1196841404 003 OCoLC 005 20210219103900.6 008 201028t20212021maua b 001 0 eng 010 2020033862 020 9780674249134 |qhardcover 020 0674249135 |qhardcover 035 (Sirsi) 40030454828 035 40030454828 035 (OCoLC)1196841404 040 MH/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dBDX |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-pl---e-ur--- 050 00 JC580 |b.K67 2021 082 00 341.6/90268 |223 100 1 Kornbluth, Andrew, |d1982- |eauthor. |=^A1418382 245 14 The August trials : |bthe Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland / |cAndrew Kornbluth. 264 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts : |bHarvard University Press, |c2021. 264 4 |c©2021 300 332 pages : |billustrations ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction: The country without a Quisling? -- "There are many Cains among us" -- Crowdsourcing genocide -- Hearts grown brutal -- The special courts -- Rewriting the narrative of the past -- Between politics and retribution -- The district courts -- Cold War considerations -- The principles of socialist humanism -- The math of amnesty -- Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory. 520 "When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Truth commissions |zPoland |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A521536 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zPoland. |=^A142011 651 0 Poland |xPolitics and government |y1945-1980. |=^A146293 651 0 Poland |xHistory |yOccupation, 1939-1945. |=^A74520 651 0 Poland |xHistory |yOccupation, 1939-1945 |xCollaborationists. |=^A74520 651 0 Soviet Union |xForeign relations |zPoland. |=^A41177 651 0 Poland |xForeign relations |zSoviet Union. |=^A41176 650 7 Collaborationists. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00867081 650 7 Diplomatic relations. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 Politics and government. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 Truth commissions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01158251 651 7 Poland. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206891 |?UNAUTHORIZED 651 7 Soviet Union. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210281 |?UNAUTHORIZED 647 7 Jewish Holocaust |d(1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958866 647 7 Occupation of Poland |c(Poland : |d1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01353902 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 949 |i30372017337491 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s45.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5633837