ABSTRACT
The largest group of papers concern postwar justice in Austria, and it is of special interest for three reasons. First, in contrast to the number of studies on justice in Germany, the number of such studies for Austria is small indeed. There is thus new information, supplemented by helpful statistics. Second, as Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Manfred Schausberger, and Eleonore Lappin note in their fine papers, the Austrian experience is an odd mix between war crimes trials on the one hand and political purge on the other. Third, the Austrian experience adds to the picture of Allied justice administered in central Europe, the statistics of which are generally considered separately from the Volksgerichte, but the overall effects of which cannot be separated so easily. Siegfried Beer, Kurt Tweraser, and Stefan Karner provide essays supplemented with statistics on British, American, and Soviet justice in the respective zones.
