Gerald Steinacher

Humanitarians at War

The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

How the International Committee of the Red Cross emerged triumphant from the dark days of World War II, escaping its ambiguous wartime record to re-affirm its leadership in world humanitarian affairs and help rewrite the rules of war in the Geneva Conventions

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780198704935
• ISBN-10: 0198704933
• Artikelnr.: 46866268

Autorenporträt

Gerald Steinacher is an Associate Professor of History and the Hymen Rosenberg Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of numerous publications on German and Italian twentieth-century history, most recently Nazis on the Run: How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice (2010), also published by Oxford University Press, which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award by the Jewish Book Council in 2011.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Birth of an Idea
2: The Silence on the Holocaust
3: Intervention and Opportunism
4: The Red Cross in Crisis
5: Between Geneva and Nuremberg
6: The ICRC and Aid Politics in Ruins
7: The Humanitarians and the Nazis
8: A Window of Opportunity
9: Towards the Geneva Conventions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index