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From the forerunners of document collection to the trial of Klaus Barbie and beyond: the transitional justice journey of the Izieu telegram

Lühe, Ulrike and Ledauphin, Romain. (2021) From the forerunners of document collection to the trial of Klaus Barbie and beyond: the transitional justice journey of the Izieu telegram. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25 (3). pp. 440-466.

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Abstract

This article analyses the journey of the so-called Izieu telegram - a telegram sent by Nazi perpetrator Klaus Barbie to report the raid of a Jewish children's home in France to his superiors - from its creation to its use in multiple transitional justice mechanisms, including an international military tribunal, domestic trials in France, and various memorialisation projects. In doing so we apply the concepts of activation and the records continuum approach, both borrowed from archival studies scholarship, to analyse how an individual record becomes continuously recontextualised through its use in transitional justice processes and in the process contributes to those same processes. We conclude by highlighting both the benefits of bringing archival concepts into dialogue with transitional justice scholarship and practice, and the tensions inherent in that endeavour.
Faculties and Departments:04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft
09 Associated Institutions > swisspeace foundation
UniBasel Contributors:Lühe, Ulrike
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
ISSN:1364-2987
e-ISSN:1744-053X
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:09 Jun 2021 15:42

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