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Justice On Trial: German Unification And The 1992 Leipzig Trial, Emily Dorothea Purvis
Justice On Trial: German Unification And The 1992 Leipzig Trial, Emily Dorothea Purvis
Honors Papers
With this thesis, I intend to formulate an argument about the evolution of a historical justice culture in Germany, both after the Second World War and post-unification. As a means of examining historical memory in post-war Germany, historians and scholars have turned their attention to the East and West German legal trials which were held in response to the crimes committed by the Nazi state. For the purpose of this thesis, my analysis will be structured around the examination of the 1950 Waldheim Trials and their lasting legacy in both post and preunification Germany.
The Waldheim Trials were foundational in …