Mary Fulbrook's award-winning book uses "reckoning" in the widest possible sense: to reveal the disparity between the extent of inhumanity perpetrated during the Nazi era and post-war attempts to interpret and rectify wrongs, as the consequences of violence reverberated through time. Reckonings exposes the disjuncture between official myths about "dealing with the past" and the fact that the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators were never held accountable.

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at University College London and the author of the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust.