Justice Behind the Iron Curtain

Justice behind the Iron Curtain is the first work to showcase communist Poland’s judicial confrontation with the legacy of the Nazi occupation and its oppressive regime.

Gabriel N. Finder is an associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia.

Introduction Chapter 1 A Restive Society Demands Swift Justice Chapter 2 The Poles at Nuremberg Chapter 3 The Supreme National Tribunal, 1946-1948 Chapter 4 Himmler’s Men on Trial, 1948-1953 Chapter 5 Jews, Poles, and Justice Chapter 6 History and Politics in the Last Trials, 1954-1959 Epilogue