Atrocities on trial
| Titel: | Atrocities on trial : historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes / publ. in assoc. with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Ed. by Patricia Heberer ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Lincoln, Neb. [u.a.] : Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2008 |
| Umfang: | XXX, 327 S. ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780803210844 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Foreword
- p. ix
- Introduction: War Crimes Trials and the Historian
- p. xiii
- Part I
- Precedents in Punishment
- The Lessons of Leipzig: Punishing German War Criminals after the First World War
- p. 3
- Early Postwar Justice in the American Zone: The "Hadamar Murder Factory" Trial
- p. 25
- U.S. Army War Crimes Trials in Germany, 1945-1947
- p. 49
- Part II
- Allied Courts and German Crimes in the Context of Nuremberg
- Law and Politics in the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 1946-1949
- p. 75
- The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial and the Limitations of Context
- p. 103
- "The Scars of Ravensbruck": Medical Experiments and British War Crimes Policy, 1945-1950
- p. 123
- The Sachsenhausen Trials: War Crimes Prosecution in the Soviet Occupation Zone and in West and East Germany
- p. 159
- Part III
- Postwar Society and the Nazi Past
- "No Ordinary Criminal": Georg Heuser, Other Mass Murderers, and West German Justice
- p. 187
- Tainted Law: The West German Judiciary and the Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals
- p. 211
- Justice in Austrian Courts?: The Case of Josef W. and Austria's Difficult Relationship with Its Past
- p. 231
- Part IV
- Current Aspects and Implications
- Crimes-against-Humanity Trials in France and Their Historical and Legal Contexts: A Retrospective Look
- p. 247
- Milestones and Mythologies: The Impact of Nuremberg
- p. 263
- Prosecution, Condemnation, and Punishment: Ethical Implications of Atrocities on Trial
- p. 283
- Selected Bibliography
- p. 305
- Contributors
- p. 309
- Index
- p. 313
- Tables
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- British War Crimes Investigators Examining the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
- p. 131
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- Nuremberg Medical Trial Defendants Originally Assigned to the British Medical War Crime Trial as Part of the Hohenlychen Group
- p. 133
- 3
- Victims of Medical Experiments Carried Out in the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
- p. 137
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- Members of the Court in Ravensbruck Trial No. 1
- p. 144
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- Outcome of Ravensbruck Trial No. 1
- p. 145
