02556cam a2200325 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002500063020002200088035002200110050002100132100003100153245009000184260005700274300001900331504005100350505038500401520096300786650005701749650004301806651004801849651004401897651006601941651004502007651004502052942001202097952010602109999001502215on1196841404OCoLCta201028t20212021maua     b    001 0 eng    a9780674249134 (hbk.)  a0674249135 (hbk.)  a(OCoLC)1196841404  aJC580b.K67 20211 aKornbluth, Andrew, d1982-14aThe August trials :bthe Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland /cAndrew Kornbluth.  aCambridge, Mass. :bHarvard University Press,c2021.  a332 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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.  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 Making use of unpublished memoirs, interviews, ministerial archives, and hundreds of individual case files, The August Trials documents how trials became the crucible in which the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"-- 4aTruth commissions zPoland xHistory y20th century. 4aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)zPoland. 4aPolandxPolitics and governmenty1945-1980. 4aPolandxHistoryyOccupation, 1939-1945. 4aPoland xHistory yOccupation, 1939-1945 xCollaborationists. 4aSoviet UnionxForeign relationszPoland. 4aPolandxForeign relationszSoviet Union.  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oJC580 .K67 2021pPNLIB21062943r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c3130d3130