Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.

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.

1 Introduction: The significance of the Nazi past; Part I. Chasms: Perpetrators and victims as communities of experience; 2 The explosion of state-sponsored violence; 3 Microcosms of violence: Toil and terror; 4 Endpoints: The machinery of extermination; 5 Defining experiences; 6 Silence and communication; 7 Crossing thresholds; Part II. Confrontations: Perpetrators and victims in German courtrooms; 8 Stages of justice; 9 Redefining perpetrators: From Euthanasia to the Holocaust; 10 Major concentration camp trials; 11 The diffraction of guilt; 12 Late, too late; Part III. Connections: Constructing links between present and past; 13 Hearing the voices of victims; 14 Making sense of the past, living for the present; 15 Discomfort zones; 16 The sins of the fathers; 17 The long shadows of persecution; 18 Oblivion and memorialisation; Conclusions; 19 A resonant past