By Yasco Horsman
What function do felony trials have in collective techniques of coming to phrases with a heritage of mass violence? How does the theatrical constitution of a felony trial facilitate and restrict nationwide approaches of therapeutic and studying from the earlier? This research starts off with the commonly publicized, old trials of 3 Nazi struggle criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose particular target was once not just to punish, but in addition to set up an formally sanctioned model of the earlier. the reality and Reconciliation commissions in South the US and South Africa further a healing objective, performing on the assumption trial may also help result in a second of closure.
Horsman demanding situations this trust by way of analyzing works that consider the kinfolk between pedagogy, remedy, and felony trials. thinker Hannah Arendt, poet Charlotte Delbo, and dramaturg Bertolt Brecht all produced responses to historical trials that reopened the situations these trials sought to shut, bringing to middle degree elements that had escaped the confines in their criminal frameworks.
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Hausner’s rhetoric became, the paler and more ghostlike became the figure in the glass booth, and no finger-wagging: “And there sits the monster responsible for all this,” could shout him back to life. (8) Arendt insists that it is Eichmann’s deeds, and not personal accounts of suffering, that should be held up for judgment. 17 But here the central role assigned to the victims, Arendt argues, threatens to close the particular theatrical space opened up by the Beth Hamispath of the bailiff and to turn its protagonist into a specter.
He drank some wine and refused to talk with a Protestant minister because, as he claimed rather pompously, he had two more hours to live, and thus “no time to waste” (252). He walked to the execution chamber calm and erect and refused the black hood that was offered to him. “He was in complete command of himself,” Arendt writes, adding with a hint of sarcasm, “nay, he was more: he was completely himself” (252): Nothing could have demonstrated this more convincingly than the grotesque silliness of his last words.
He then proceeded: “After a short while, gentlemen, we shall all meet again. Such is the fate of all men. Long live Germany, long live Argentina, long live Austria. ” (252, emphasis in original) If Eichmann is completely himself and shows no anxiety when faced with his own death, his behavior is an emblem of his profound inauthenticity and his inability to fully become himself. In the hour of his death, confronted with his own mortality, he is capable only of uttering empty phrases. These clichés, moreover, contradict each other.