Listening to Silence. What Soviet Postwar Trial Materials Resist Revealing about the Holocaust
Listening to Silence. What Soviet Postwar Trial Materials Resist Revealing about the Holocaust
Author(s): Diana DumitruSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Studies in violence and power, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: postwar trials; Soviet Union; violence;
Summary/Abstract: This article draws on Soviet postwar investigations of crimes and trial materials in order to illuminate how the representation of wartime anti-Jewish violence shapes contemporary historians’ knowledge of the Holocaust. The study intertwines two different but tightly con-nected strands of analysis: the first delineates gaps in Soviet postwar trial documentation while placing them in the sources’ specific legal and social contexts. The second thread of inquiry highlights the challenges resulting for the study of the Holocaust.
Journal: S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
- Issue Year: 7/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 4-12
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English