Language:
Hungarian
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,3 (1995) 293-317
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
War crime trials
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Summarizes the trial against Imre Finta, a former Hungarian gendarmerie captain, who was charged with the confinement, imprisonment, and robbery of 8,617 Jews in the ghetto of Szeged, Hungary, in 1944. The trial was held in Canada between October 1989-May 1990. This was the first war crimes trial since 1987, when Canada's Criminal Code was amended. Finta was acquitted in the initial trial, in the decision of the Court of Appeal for Toronto in April 1992, and in the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in March 1994. The arguments of the higher courts for Finta's acquittal induced some Jewish organizations, such as the League for Human Rights of B'nai B'rith, the Canadian Jewish Congress, and the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association, as well as the Justice Ministry, to request that the Supreme Court conduct a clarification and a rehearing, because its decision made any further trial of World War II war criminals virtually impossible. The request was denied.
Note:
In Hungarian: "Századok" 129 (1995).
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Reprinted in his "Studies on the Holocaust" II (2001).
URL:
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