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Tomaz Jardim is the author of The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany, winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize. A former fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he is Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Fascinating and highly original. Deploying a number of previously neglected sources, Jardim not only explores Koch's life and trials, but also raises intriguing questions about how guilt can ever be established when all but the most circumstantial evidence is absent. A high-caliber contribution.--Elizabeth Borgwardt, author of A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights In a stroke of genius, Jardim shows how the figure of Ilse Koch--popularly depicted as a bad wife, a worse mother, and a sexually threatening woman--helped frame the Holocaust as being, fundamentally, about psychological perversion and deviation from the gendered norms of civilization. In so doing, he makes the role of gender in postwar Nazi trials not only legible, but inescapable.--Devin O. Pendas, author of Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950 The definitive portrait of Ilse Koch, whose caricature as a sadistic nymphomaniac has for too long dominated representations of Nazi female perpetrators. In Jardim's judicious hands, Koch's story reveals much about the Nazi system, postwar justice, and the sexism that permeated both, while firmly establishing Koch's guilt and paranoid antisemitism.--Wendy Lower, author of Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
