Executioners, bystanders and victims: collective guilt, the legacy of denazification and the birth of twentieth-century transitional justice

Therese O'Donnell

doi:10.1111/j.1748-121X.2005.tb00687.x

Executioners, bystanders and victims: collective guilt, the legacy of denazification and the birth of twentieth-century transitional justice

Therese O'Donnell

Law

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Abstract

The practical, legal and philosophical facing both victors and vanquished in the 1940s demanded undertaking tentative steps into the then new real of post-conflict transitional justice, and thus it is to this area that the gaze must be directed in order to comprehend the origins of the huge and complex thematic and practical structures utilised to rebuild civil societies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	627-667
Number of pages	40
Journal	Legal Studies
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121X.2005.tb00687.x
Publication status	Published - Nov 2005

Keywords

human rights
denazification
nuremberg trials
nazis
holocaust
international law

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Executioners, bystanders and victims: collective guilt, the legacy of denazification and the birth of twentieth-century transitional justice

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