Michael Fleming

In the Shadow of the Holocaust

Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to ensure that war crimes committed during the Second World War were prosecuted. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission, it analyses the different ways that the Polish Government in Exile agitated for an Allied response to German atrocities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781009107167
• ISBN-10: 100910716X
• Artikelnr.: 69073264

Autorenporträt

Michael Fleming is a historian based in London. His publications include Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944-1950 (2010), Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (2014) and, as editor, Essays Commemorating Szmul Zygielbojm (2018). He is a recipient of the Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies, and the Aquila Polonica Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Invasion and occupation: (officially) informing the world
2. Seeking a response: Polish diplomacy (sensu stricto)
3. Polish soft diplomacy: attempts to shape the discursive environment
4. War crimes and the path towards the UNWCC
5. The UNWCC, law and inter-allied politics
6. The Polish Government in Exile's war crimes office
7. Pursuing justice across the Iron Curtain
8. Poland, the UNWCC and the Cold War
Conclusion.