Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice. By Mary Fulbrook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 657. Cloth $34.95 ISBN 978-0190681241.
Abstract:In Reckonings, Mary Fulbrook, the author of a series of works on modern German history, including several about German and East German history since 1945, turns her attention to the extent to which justice was done to those engaged in Nazi Germany's policies of persecution and extermination. 1 Fulbrook's central theme is "the significant disjuncture" that is "revealed between official myths about 'dealing with the past,' on the one hand, and the extent to which the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators act… Show more
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