audiobook The Funeral Casino: Meditation; Massacre; and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand by Alan Klima in History

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In 2009; Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975; when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed; Demjanjuk was stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka―only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally; in 2011; after eighteen months of trial; a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler’s SS in the murder of 28;060 Jews at Sobibor; a death camp in eastern Poland.An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar; Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk’s bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law’s effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history.