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Canada and the United States



Michael J. Bazyler. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts. New York: New York: University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 410. $34.95.

The term "Holocaust justice" invariably conjures images of Hermann Göring in the dock at Nuremberg, or Adolf Eichmann in the glass booth at Jerusalem. In the years following the conclusion of World War II, the quest for Holocaust justice was pursued in far-flung courts, as prosecutors and jurists sought to enforce norms of criminal law against perpetrators of genocide. Only with the conclusion of the Maurice Papon trial in 1998 did the era of the great Holocaust prosecutions draw to a close, its passing a capitulation less to moral suasion than to actuarial fact. But the gradual dying off of the generation of perpetrators has not signaled an end to the law's engagement with the legacy of Nazi crimes. Rather, the quest for Holocaust justice has shifted from criminal tribunals to civil courts, from the prosecution of SS officers to suits against Swiss banks. . . .

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