POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nuremberg Trials, Natural Justice, Retributive Justice
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Thesis: before the war ended and the period after the war ended from 1945-48, not only did reconstruction and the division between east and west happen, post-war memory was historically inaccurately reshaped and established. The difference between us and them : germans were the main perpetrator and enemy. This blinded war-crimes of european countries occupied by germany. Or the fact that concentration camps were located in other countries, staffed by non-germans. The distinction made between nazis and germans: many previous nazis were given amnesty to restore civil administration and local self-governance, the persecution of previous nazis stopped by 1948 and were forgotten through. Countries and masses, using the civil conflicts and gov t instability left by the nazis, to expel and ethnically purify their countries. But, clear distinction made between nazi s actions and masses actions, although morally, they are the same. Resistance myth: to reinforce this idea that everyone was against the nazis.
