National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia

ISBN-13: 9780521810678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 406 str.

Benjamin Frommer

Opis

This comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution examines the prosecution of more than one-hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. Based on archival sources that remained inaccessible during the cold war, the book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's transition from Nazi occupation to Stalinist rule. Frommer asserts that the Czechs made a genuine, if flawed, attempt to confront past war crimes, including their own.

Recenzje

"This is a brilliant study, exhaustively researched, and presented in a remarkably balanced way. It is, beyond doubt, the seminal work on this subject." -Stanislav J. Kirschbaum, Austrian History Yearbook

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Wild retribution; 2. The great decree; 3. People's courts and popular justice; 4. 'The disease of denunciation'; 5. Offenses against national honor; 6. Retribution and the transfer; 7. The National Court; 8. The road to February and beyond; Conclusion.