Atrocities on trial: historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes

The lessons of Leipzig : punishing German War criminals after the First World War / Jürgen Matthäus -- Early postwar justice in the American zone : the "Hadamar murder factory" trial / Patricia Heberer -- U.S. Army war crimes trials in Germany, 1945-1947 / Lisa Yavnai -- Law and politics i...

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Contributors: Heberer, Patricia (Editor) ; Matthäus, Jürgen 1959- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.] University of Nebraska Press c 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on the Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes, Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus, eds. (University of Nebraska Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008), xxx + 327 pp., 5 tables, bibl., ind., pbk. 29.95 (2010) (Bryant, Michael S.)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Germany / War crimes trial / National Socialist crime / History 1945-1992
B History
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B National Socialism
B War crimes trial
B NS
B War crime trials Germany
B Nachkriegsdeutschland
B Nachkriegsprozess
B Post-war period (motif)
B War crime trials
B War crime trials (Germany)
B Germany
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Summary:The lessons of Leipzig : punishing German War criminals after the First World War / Jürgen Matthäus -- Early postwar justice in the American zone : the "Hadamar murder factory" trial / Patricia Heberer -- U.S. Army war crimes trials in Germany, 1945-1947 / Lisa Yavnai -- Law and politics in the subsequent Nuremberg trials, 1946-1949 / Jonathan Friedman -- The Nuremberg doctors' trial and the limitations of context / Michael R. Marrus -- "The scars of Ravensbrück" : medical experiments and British war crimes policy, 1945-1950 / Ulf Schmidt -- The Sachsenhausen trials : war crimes prosecution in the Soviet occupation zone and in West and East Germany / Jonathan Friedman -- "No ordinary criminal" : Georg Heuser, other mass murderers, and West German justice / Jürgen Matthäus -- Tainted law : the West German judiciary and the prosecution of Nazi War criminals / Rebecca Wittmann -- Justice in Austrian courts? The case of Josef W. and Austria's difficult relationship with its past / Patricia Heberer -- Crimes-against-humanity trials in France and their historical and legal contexts : a retrospective look / Richard J. Golsan -- Milestones and mythologies : the impact of Nuremberg / Donald Bloxham -- Prosecution, condemnation, and punishment : ethical implications of atrocities on trial / John K. Roth
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0803210841