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Defensive visual justice
Strategies of mediatization in early Nazi trials in East Germany
In: Making Justice Visible (2022), pp. 175–196
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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 |
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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 |