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Cargando... Judgment Before Nuremberg: The Holocaust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crimes Trial (2012)por Greg Dawson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Even though I think that Dawson is doing a historically good deed in writing about a largely ignored area of history and Holocaust studies, I question that he is the right candidate to write about it. His motivation is in the right place (his mother and aunt are the only known survivors of the Drobitsky Yar massacre) and he has the writing skills needed to engage an audience, but the fact that it took him two thirds of the book to actually get to the trial in question because he was so busy writing about the back story too much is inexcusable. Sure, many of his readers will need a primer on the Holoaust in the Ukraine, but he basically rewrote the whole story rather than having a succinct introduction or referring them to general sources. I also feel like he could have beefed up the discussion of the trial, and done so easily by including interviews and eyewitness accounts (he pawns this off because he figures that it's too raw a wound and people woulndn't be willing to talk...). This is why historians, not journalists, need to take the lead in exposing stories like this! ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"When we reflect on the Holocaust, we think of Auschwitz and Dachau; and when we think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, we think of Nuremberg. Not Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not the town of Kharkov (Kharkiv in Ukrainian). But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this Ukrainian city, where in a sense the Holocaust itself began. Eighteen months before the end of World War II, three Nazi officers and a Ukrainian collaborator were tried and convicted of war crimes in a Soviet court and hanged in Kharkov's public square. Revealing a lost chapter in Holocaust historiography, journalist Greg Dawson tells of his journey to this place, and the rediscovery of the forgotten trial which began the process of avenging the murder of his grandparents, great-grandparents, and tens of thousands of fellow Ukrainians consumed at the dawn of the Shoah"--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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