… Adalbert Rückerl summarizes this moment with bitterness: … Kruse, “NS-Prozesse und
Restauration”, 2 Kritische Justiz (1978), p. 119). Older work of Adalbert Rückerl gives the …

… 64 The total number comes from Rückerl, NS-Verbrechen, p. 329; the number of homicide
… , “NS-Prozesse,” p. 180. 65 See the statistical appendix in Rückerl, NS-Verbrechen, p. 329. …

In late spring 1993, the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart issued an
internal memorandum informing its employees that a doctoral candidate there—the author of …

… While the Rückerl 40 years ago was convinced that the post-war legal system in the
Federal Republic demands all citizen rights for defendants even in cases of “concern that in …

… 221-36; in the chapter by Gunter Kimmel in Ruckerl, ed., NS-Prozesse, pp. 107-29; and
throughout the memoirs of Eugen Kogon. 29 Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz (New …

Focuses on the crimes committed by Ilse Koch, wife of the first commandant Karl Otto Koch
of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Association of Ilse with the fetishization of …

This dissertation examines post-transitional justice in the Federal Republic of Germany. It
analyzes how the West German criminal justice system treated former Nazi malefactors after …

Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate
about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day …

… 1951 is a recurring ‘yes–but’ or ‘apart from’ theme: yes the Nazis deserved punishment, but
the Allies deserved it too; apart from the fact that the Nazis were the greatest ‘gangsters’, 126 …

From its emergence in the 1950s, the term Vergangenheitsbewältigung—usually translated
as “mastering of the past” or “coming to terms with the past”—was associated with how West …