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‘A Hellish Nightmare’: The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950
2020
This study examines how the Swedish press responded to and portrayed the Holocaust immediately after the war. The liberation of the camps, the role and guilt of ordinary Germans, the Nuremberg trials and the ongoing problem of Jewish DPs in Europe were the most important issues on the basis of which the Swedish press had shaped the early post-war view of the Holocaust. Moreover, the fate of the Jews under Nazi Germany formed an important element of such reporting. The author argues that, contrary to the dominant Anglo-American historiography, which holds that the first post-war decades were marked by silence surrounding the German genocide, the Swedish press wrote about the Holocaust often …
Les juristes ouest-allemands et le "procès des juristes" de Nuremberg: Analyse d'une (non?)-réception
2016
Der Beitrag untersucht den Nürnberger Juristenprozess von 1947 in einer doppelten Perspektive: Einerseits wird der Schwerpunkt auf die unmittelbare Rezeption des Urteils in der Fachöffentlichkeit gelegt. Hauptquellen der Untersuchung sind dabei die damaligen Fachzeitschriften und Protokolle von Juristentagungen. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht, durch eine differenzierte Analyse der Komplexität der damaligen Diskurse (wie im Fall des berühmten Aufsatzes Gustav Radbruchs zum Prozess) gerechter zu werden. Andererseits wird diese Rezeption in den breiteren Zusammenhang des Standesbewusstseins und des Berufsethos der Juristen gestellt. Es stellt sich heraus, dass das schon in der Weimarer Zeit stark au…
Responding to the Nazi Crimes: The British Press and the Nuremberg Trial
2011
Ever since the news of the liberated concentration camps had filled the pages of British newspapers, the majority attitude of the press was that Nazi criminality, including the Final Solution, had to be recorded and remembered. Throughout the summer of 1945, the victorious Allies were wrestling with the question of how the unbelievable scenes, exposed by advancing Allied armies who liberated concentration camps, and the criminality of the Nazi regime that had made them possible, should be investigated.