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The right wrong man : John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial, Lawrence Douglas

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Summary
"In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the longest 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 naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as 'Ivan the Terrible' of Treblinka--only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland.... Douglas offers ... both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history."--Front flap of jacket
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
331 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • The beginning of the end of something
  • John in America
  • Ivan in Israel
  • Demjanjuk redux
  • Demjanjuk in Munich
  • Was damals Recht war ...
  • Memory into history
  • The trial by history
  • The right wrong man
  • Postscript
Isbn
9780691125701
Instance
Label
The right wrong man : John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial
Title
The right wrong man
Title remainder
John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial
Statement of responsibility
Lawrence Douglas
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the longest 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 naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as 'Ivan the Terrible' of Treblinka--only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland.... Douglas offers ... both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history."--Front flap of jacket
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Douglas, Lawrence
Dewey number
341.6/90268
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • facsimiles
Index
index present
LC call number
KF228.D44
LC item number
D68 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Demjanjuk, John
  • War crime trials
  • War crime trials
  • War crime trials
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Label
The right wrong man : John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial, Lawrence Douglas
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-319) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- The beginning of the end of something -- John in America -- Ivan in Israel -- Demjanjuk redux -- Demjanjuk in Munich -- Was damals Recht war ... -- Memory into history -- The trial by history -- The right wrong man -- Postscript
Control code
ocn904144462
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
331 pages
Isbn
9780691125701
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2015007801
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)904144462
Label
The right wrong man : John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial, Lawrence Douglas
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-319) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- The beginning of the end of something -- John in America -- Ivan in Israel -- Demjanjuk redux -- Demjanjuk in Munich -- Was damals Recht war ... -- Memory into history -- The trial by history -- The right wrong man -- Postscript
Control code
ocn904144462
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
331 pages
Isbn
9780691125701
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
2015007801
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits
System control number
(OCoLC)904144462

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