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Weinke, A. (2022). 'Defensive visual justice' In R. Leiserowitz, G. Malinauskaitė, & H. Vitkus (Eds.), Making Justice Visible (1st ed., pp. 175-196)
Weinke, Annette. "Defensive visual justice: Strategies of mediatization in early Nazi trials in East Germany". Making Justice Visible, edited by Ruth Leiserowitz, Gintarė Malinauskaitė and Hektoras Vitkus, fibre Verlag, 2022, pp. 175-196.
Weinke, A. (2022): 'Defensive visual justice', in Leiserowitz, R, Malinauskaitė, G, Vitkus, H (eds.). Making Justice Visible. fibre Verlag, pp. 175-196.
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Defensive visual justice

Strategies of mediatization in early Nazi trials in East Germany

Weinke, Annette

In: Making Justice Visible (2022), pp. 175–196

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fibre Verlag
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https://doi.org/10.3790/978-3-88640-438-4.2022.175
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Annette Weinke

Weinke, Annette, PhD, is Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and co-director of the Jena Center for 20th Century History

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Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Annette Weinke: Defensive visual justice. Strategies of mediatization in early Nazi trials in East Germany 175
A permanent ‘problem child’? Historicizing East German investigations against war criminals 178
Idiosyncrasies of Nazi investigations in postwar East Germany 184
The Dresden doctors’ trial of 1947 186
The Görlitz show trial of 1948 188
1) Court design and the role of the judiciary 192
2) Visualization of guilt 193
3) The ambiguities of atrocity forensics 194
Conclusion 196

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