(Source: Bookdepository.com)
I.B. Tauris is
publishing a book on the role of historians as expert witnesses during the
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Frankfurt
Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and
1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It
was a trial that saw the engagement of four of the nation's leading historians
as expert witnesses - Martin Broszat, Hans Buchheim, Helmut Krausnick, and
Hans-Adolf Jacobsen - appointed by the prosecution to give evidence pertaining
to the historical and organisational context of the Holocaust. Following the
trial, the reports of these historians were published in a bestselling book,
Anatomie des SS-Staates (Anatomy of the SS State) and Mathew Turner here
investigates the relationship between the trial and this publication. In recent
years, more attention has been paid to the intersection between history and law
that accompanies historians' entry into the courtroom. Very little, however,
has been written about this intersection with a focus on a single case study.
Based on original research in several German archives and first-hand interviews,
Turner addresses these connections through a study of West Germany's most
famous trial, and the monumental work of history produced from the engagement
of historical expertise in court.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mathew Turner is
a Lecturer in History at Deakin University, Australia, from where he gained his
PhD. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Jena Center for Twentieth Century
History in Germany.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.
Background to
Frankfurt: the IfZ, Gutachten and the Ulm Trial
The Law Courts History:
Pre-Trial Preparations
Giving Evidence:
The Historians' Court? Or Historians Caught?
Judgement Day:
Hofmeyer Reaches a Verdict
Publishing
Anatomie: Gutachten to Chapters
Responding to
Anatomie: Scholar React
Receiving
Anatomie: Hoe the Book Made History
Conclusion
Bibliography
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