Benjamin Frommer is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

• Introduction; 1. Wild retribution; 2. The great decree; 3. People's courts and popular justice; 4. 'The disease of denunciation'; 5. Offenses against national honor; 6. Retribution and the transfer; 7. The National Court; 8. The road to February and beyond; Conclusion.

"[A] well-written book...Benjamin Frommer has excavated a huge amount of detailed data. [F]or scholars of European reconstruction in the 1940s or Czech history, and for others who are concerned with questions of justice for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, it is a sobering and thoughtful account." Patricia , Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Sr. Fellow, Centre for International Relations, Professor and Dean of Arts Emerita, University of British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

Benjamin Frommer is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

• Introduction; 1. Wild retribution; 2. The great decree; 3. People's courts and popular justice; 4. 'The disease of denunciation'; 5. Offenses against national honor; 6. Retribution and the transfer; 7. The National Court; 8. The road to February and beyond; Conclusion.

"[A] well-written book...Benjamin Frommer has excavated a huge amount of detailed data. [F]or scholars of European reconstruction in the 1940s or Czech history, and for others who are concerned with questions of justice for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, it is a sobering and thoughtful account." Patricia , Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Sr. Fellow, Centre for International Relations, Professor and Dean of Arts Emerita, University of British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

Benjamin Frommer is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

• Introduction; 1. Wild retribution; 2. The great decree; 3. People's courts and popular justice; 4. 'The disease of denunciation'; 5. Offenses against national honor; 6. Retribution and the transfer; 7. The National Court; 8. The road to February and beyond; Conclusion.

"[A] well-written book...Benjamin Frommer has excavated a huge amount of detailed data. [F]or scholars of European reconstruction in the 1940s or Czech history, and for others who are concerned with questions of justice for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, it is a sobering and thoughtful account." Patricia , Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Sr. Fellow, Centre for International Relations, Professor and Dean of Arts Emerita, University of British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online