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The significance of the Nazi past
Part I. Chasms : patterns of persecution. The explosion of state-sponsored violence
Institutionalized murder
Microcosms of violence : Polish prisms
Endpoints : the machinery of extermination
Defining experiences
Silence and communication
Part II. Confrontations : landscapes of the law. Transitional justice
Judging their own : selective justice in the successor states
From euthanasia to genocide
Major concentration camp trials : Auschwitz and beyond
The diffraction of guilt
Late, too late
Part III. Connections : memories and explorations. Hearing the voices of victims
Making sense of the past, living for the present
Discomfort zones
The sins of the fathers
The long shadows of persecution
Oblivion and memorialization Conclusions : A resonant past.
Part I. Chasms : patterns of persecution. The explosion of state-sponsored violence
Institutionalized murder
Microcosms of violence : Polish prisms
Endpoints : the machinery of extermination
Defining experiences
Silence and communication
Part II. Confrontations : landscapes of the law. Transitional justice
Judging their own : selective justice in the successor states
From euthanasia to genocide
Major concentration camp trials : Auschwitz and beyond
The diffraction of guilt
Late, too late
Part III. Connections : memories and explorations. Hearing the voices of victims
Making sense of the past, living for the present
Discomfort zones
The sins of the fathers
The long shadows of persecution
Oblivion and memorialization Conclusions : A resonant past.