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050			_aJC580 _b.K67 2021
100	1		_aKornbluth, Andrew, _d1982-
245	1	4	_aThe August trials : _bthe Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland / _cAndrew Kornbluth.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2021.
300			_a332 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The country without a Quisling? -- "There are many Cains among us" -- Crowdsourcing genocide -- Hearts grown brutal -- The special courts -- Rewriting the narrative of the past -- Between politics and retribution -- The district courts -- Cold War considerations -- The principles of socialist humanism -- The math of amnesty -- Conclusion: The conspiracy of memory.
520			_a"When six years of resistance to Nazi occupation came to an end in 1945, a devastated Poland could agree with its new, Soviet-imposed rulers on little else beyond the need to punish German war criminals and their collaborators. But as the process of postwar retribution began to unearth evidence of enthusiastic local participation in the Holocaust, the hated government, traumatized populace, and fiercely independent judiciary found themselves struggling to salvage a sanitized vision of the past that could serve as the basis for national unity. Long dismissed as Stalinist farce, Poland's 32,000 trials for collaboration were in fact a scrupulous, complex search for the truth. Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the communist state and an unyielding society hammered out the foundational myth of modern Poland"--
650		4	_aTruth commissions _zPoland _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _zPoland.
651		4	_aPoland _xPolitics and government _y1945-1980.
651		4	_aPoland _xHistory _yOccupation, 1939-1945.
651		4	_aPoland _xHistory _yOccupation, 1939-1945 _xCollaborationists.
651		4	_aSoviet Union _xForeign relations _zPoland.
651		4	_aPoland _xForeign relations _zSoviet Union.
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