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The didactic trial: filtering history and memory into the courtroom / Lawrence Douglas. - Prosecuting the past in the postwar decade: political strategy and national myth-making / Donald Bloxham. - The Holocaust, Nuremberg and the birth of modern international law / Michael J. Bazyler. - The role of the genocide of European Jewry in the preparations for the Nuremberg trials / Arieh J. Kochavi. - Dr. Jacob Robinson, the Institute of Jewish Affairs and the elusive Jewish voice in Nuremberg / Boaz Cohen. - The judicial construction of the genocide of the Jews at Nuremberg: witnesses on stand and on screen / Christian Delage. - Prosecutors and historians: Holocaust investigations and historiography in the Federal Republic 1955-1975 / Dieter Pohl. - Coverage of the Bergen-Belsen trial and the Auschwitz trial in the NWDR/NDR: the reports of Axel Eggebrecht / Inge Marszolek. - Hitler's unwilling executioners? The representation of the Holocaust through the Bielefeld Bialystok trial of 1965-1967 / Katrin Stoll. - Between demonization and normalization: continuity and change in German perceptions of the Holocaust as treated in post-war trials / Annette Weinke. - The Belgian trials (1945-1951) / Nico Wouters. - The case of the French railways and the deportation of Jews in 1944 / Michael R. Marrus. - Crime and comprehension, punishment and legal attitudes: German and local perpetrators of the Holocaust in Domachevo, Belarus, in the records of Soviet, Polish, German, and British war crimes investigations / Martin Dean. - Amon Goeth's trial in Cracow: its impact on Holocaust awareness in Poland / Edyta Gawron. - From Kappler to Priebke: Holocaust trials and the seasons of memory in Italy / Paolo Pezzino and Guri Schwarz.