This volume examines the depiction of the Holocaust and the Nazi era by means of German and Israeli newspapers reporting about four Nazi trials. The study consists of a comprehensive and systematic quantitative content analysis of the press coverage of four trials that were held in Germany and in Israel over the course of 43 years, from 1945 to 1988. The main focus of the study is on how the Holocaust was depicted in newspapers in the two countries as they reported on each of the trials. Even though the present study was conducted more than 50 years after the end of World War II, it provides a broad overview of an entire epoch in which Nazi war crime trials were conducted.
Part 1 The Holocaust and Nazi War Crime Trials in Retrospect. Part 2 The Trials and Their Journalistic Context: The Nuremberg Trial; The Eichmann Trial; The Auschwitz Trial; The Demjanjuk Trial. Part 3 The Holocaust and the Israeli and German Societies: The Holocaust and German Society; The Holocaust and Israeli Society. Part 4 The Framework of the Study: The Newspapers Studied; The German Newspapers; The Israeli Newspapers; The Content Analysis; Problems in Portraying the Holocaust; Coding Procedure and Statistical Analysis. Part 5 The Press Coverage of the Trials: The Extent of the Coverage; Characteristics of the Items; Sources of the Items; Salience of the Items; The Phases of the Trials; The Themes of the Coverage - Analysis by Items; The Themes of Coverage - Analysis by Statements; Metaphors and Loaded Items; Emotional Tone of the Items. Part 6 Dissociation and Identification. Part 7 Epilogue: Appendices.
