TY - BOOK AU - Douglas,Lawrence TI - The right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial SN - 9780691125701 AV - KF228.D44 U1 - 341.6/90268 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Princeton, Oxford PB - Princeton University Press KW - Demjanjuk, John KW - War crime trials KW - United States KW - Israel KW - Germany KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Atrocities KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Class of Spring 2022 KW - Daimler Fellow KW - Fellow N1 - Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 299-319; The beginning of the end of something -- John in America -- Ivan in Israel -- Redux and repetition -- Demjanjuk in Munich -- Was damals recht war -- Memory into history -- History into law -- The right wrong man N2 - In 2009, Harper’s Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was twice stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka—only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler’s SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland. An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk’s bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law’s effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history UR - https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz454672411inh.htm ER -