Nazi Crimes and the Law

Herausgeber: Friedlander, Henry; Stoltzfus, Nathan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the use of national and international law to prosecute Nazi crimes, the centerpiece of twentieth-century state-sponsored genocide and mass murder. Its various essays reconstruct the historical setting of crimes sponsored by Nazi Germany and discuss the limitations placed on the national and international judicial forums responsible for prosecuting German perpetrators.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617229
• ISBN-10: 131661722X
• Artikelnr.: 44889111

Inhaltsangabe

1. German law and Nazi crimes Henry Friedlander; 2. The setting and
significance of the Nuremberg trials: a historian's perspective Gerhard
Weinberg; 3. The American military commission trials of 1945 Patricia
Heberer; 4. Punishing the excess: sadism, bureaucratized atrocity, and the
US army concentration camp trials, 1945-7 Michael Bryant; 5. Perceptions
and suppression of Nazi crimes by the postwar German judiciary Joachim
Perels; 6. Getting away with murder: the Taubner case Dick de Mildt; 7.
Cold war pressures and the German prosecution of Wehmacht war crimes: the
case of Cephalonia, 1943 Natha Stotzfus; 8. The trials of Nazi war
criminals in Austria Wilfried R. Garscha; 9. The German-German rivalry and
the prosecution of Nazi war criminals during the cold war, 1958-65 Annette
Weinke; 10. History in the courthouse: the presentation of World War II
crimes in US courts 50 years later Elizabeth B. White; 11. Law, history,
and Holocaust denial in the courtroom: the Zundel and Irving cases
Christopher R. Browning.