The Holocaust at Nuremberg

Marrus, Michael Robert
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Title The Holocaust at Nuremberg.
Original Library/publisher Holocaust
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. Vol. I-VI. Ed. by David Cesarani. New York: Routledge, 2004
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 26 (1998) 1-41
Description The Nuremberg Trials presented the first definition and documentation on the Holocaust to a non-Jewish audience
they included the genocide of the Jews in the understanding of Nazism and of World War II. However, the prosecutors and the judges made mistakes both in details and in the wider conception - e.g. failing to recognize a Nazi plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, and focusing on crimes committed in the occupied areas, they downplayed the persecution of Jews in Germany in 1933-39 and included the genocide of Jews with other crimes against humanity or war crimes. They regarded the Nazi anti-Jewish policy only as instrumental in the Nazis' drive to power and in the consolidation of their rule in Europe and failed to set the Nazis' assault on Jewry within the framework of a well-articulated antisemitic ideology. The prosecutors did not pursue the issue of the influence of the Nazis' antisemitic ideology on the perpetration of the mass murder of the Jews. Nonetheless, Nuremberg helped to achieve recognition of the Holocaust as an event of worldwide significance, and thus served the world well. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Appeared also in "Holocaust
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies" VI (2004).
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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