| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3 | The History Cooperative

Stephan Landsman. Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp xi, 304.
This book's prologue states that "The world's effort to respond to genocide has been one of the most significant legal developments in the last fifty years." Stephan Landsman examines the trials of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, of Adolf Eichmann and John Demjanjuk in Israel, and of Imre Finta in Canada. The concluding chapter of his book considers the prosecution of perpetrators of more recent genocides and crimes against humanity.	1
The author's claim to have studied the trial records carefully is suspect, at least in his opening case. A glance at the endnotes to the chapter on the IMT trial reveals not a single reference to published trial transcripts or to any archival sources. Indeed, the vast majority of the references are to a limited range of secondary sources, namely the accounts by Telford Taylor, Drexel Sprecher, Robert E. Conot, and John and Ann Tusa. This may explain why the chapter presents us only with a standard resumé of the trial, its achievements, and its shortcomings, one that might have been substantially nuanced with reference to other studies of the representation of the Holocaust at Nuremberg.	. . .

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