Introduction&Christian Delage and Peter Goodrich 1
PART 1 History, trauma, war crimes 7
1 'Historical trials': getting the past right - or the future?&Pieter Lagrou 9
2 Building the narrative: the UN Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone&William A. Schabas 23
3 Competitive narratives: an incident at the Papon trial&Henry Rousso 41
4 Gacaca courts in Rwanda: a local justice for a local genocide history?&Helene Dumas 57
PART 2 Show trials 75
5 The raion trials in the USSR (1937-1938)&Nicolas Werth 77
6 The trial of the "Gang of Four": visibility and invisibility of the Cultural Revolution&Anne Kerlan 89
7 The Nazi People's Court (1944) or the failure of "total justice"&Johann Chapoutot 101
8 The Majdanek trial: the Holocaust on trial on film: Kazimierz Czynski's Swastyka i Szubienica (1945)&Stuart Liebman 113
PART 3 Khmer Rouge on trial 129
9 The psychological evaluation of Duch, a criminal against humanity in Cambodia&Francoise Sironi 131
10 Pleading guilty before the international criminal courts: the case of Duch before the Khmer Rouge tribunal&Francois Roux 155
11 The place and participation of the victims in Duch's trial&Brice Poirier 167
PART 4 Visual memory 177
12 Visualizing "the other 9/11": memory of the Chilean coup&Constance Ortuzar 179
13 Hollywood: pre-visualization and post-9/11 style?&Vincent Dozol 187
14 Visualizing 9/11&Christian Delage 199
Portfolio: 9/11 visual memories&Peter Goodrich and Linda Mills, Edward Hillel, Richard Sherwin 213
Index 225