The desire to forget lengthens exile, and the mystery of salvation is called remembrance.
Inscription at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust
Lawrence Douglas’s The Right Wrong Man is an essential read for anyone involved in international criminal law. It is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched, and well-reasoned treatment of the events, circumstances, challenges, and resolutions of bringing John Demjanjuk to account for being “the ultimate replaceable cog in an exterminatory machine…not because he committed wanton murder, but because he worked in a factory of death. He was convicted of having been an accessory to murder for a simple and irresistible reason – because that had been his job.”(( Lawrence Douglas, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial 16 (Princeton University Press 2016). )) Continue reading “Book Review — The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial, by Lawrence Douglas.”
