The trial of a former camp guard opens questions about Germany's reckoning with Nazism.
Tobias Buck uses a particular legal proceeding as an entry into a larger history of responsibility. Choose this for readers interested in the relationship between evidence, age, memory and the time it takes institutions to act. A trial can produce a verdict without settling every question a society needs to ask.
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