Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
| Titel: | Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial : their role as expert witnesses / Mathew Turner |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London; New York : I.B. TAURIS, 2018 |
| Umfang: | xiii, 236 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
International library of twentieth century history ; 122 |
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| ISBN: | 9781788310734 ; 9781786724793 ; 9781786734792 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Plates
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- The Expert Witness Historian
- p. 3
- Plausible versus Probable: History and Law
- p. 7
- Locating the Paradox: Historical Knowledge as Legal Evidence
- p. 13
- The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial Experts: Existing Literature
- p. 18
- Praising Anatomy
- p. 21
- Book Structure and Chapter Synopsis
- p. 23
- 1
- Background to Frankfurt: The IfZ, Gutachten and the Ulm Trial
- p. 26
- Gutachten and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte
- p. 29
- The Ulm Einsatzkommando Trial
- p. 34
- 2
- The Law Courts History: Pre-Trial Preparations
- p. 45
- A Perfect Sturm: Bauer and the IfZ, 1959-1962
- p. 50
- The weißer Fleck: 7 November 1962
- p. 56
- Drafting the Gutachten
- p. 61
- 'Gutachten are worthless here': A Judge's Pre-Trial Verdict
- p. 67
- 3
- Giving Evidence: The Historians' Court? Or, Historians Caught?
- p. 71
- 'An Historical Seminar': Buchheim, 7 February 1964
- p. 73
- The Director's Drama: Krausnick, 17 February 1964
- p. 80
- 'Compassion has no place': Broszat, 21 and 28 February 1964
- p. 86
- Buchheim Returns, 3 July 1964
- p. 92
- The Last Chapter: Jacobsen, 14 August 1964
- p. 94
- 4
- Judgement Day: Hofmeyer Reaches a Verdict
- p. 99
- Parting Shots: Kaul and Laternser
- p. 102
- Hofmeyer's Final Judgement
- p. 105
- Judging History, Making Law: How the Historians Fared
- p. 108
- 5
- Publishing Anatomy: Gutachten to Chapters
- p. 117
- The Paperback Gutachten
- p. 118
- 'A Guide to Barbarism'
- p. 126
- 6
- Responding to Anatomy: Scholars React
- p. 132
- Reviewing Anatomy: English Take the Lead
- p. 133
- Dissecting Anatomy: The Future of the Past
- p. 136
- The 'Burning Questions': Herzfeld and Ainsztein
- p. 140
- 7
- Receiving Anatomy: How the Book Made History
- p. 145
- Laternser's Lies
- p. 146
- The Road to Auschwitz
- p. 147
- The Debate Begins: Krausnick versus Broszat
- p. 149
- Creating History, Informing Research
- p. 155
- Conclusion
- p. 162
- Notes
- p. 177
- Bibliography
- p. 217
- Index
- p. 233
