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Title Atrocities on trial : historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes / edited by Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus ; foreword by Michael R. Marrus.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; [Washington, DC] : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Museum, [2008]
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 Moore Stacks  KZ1176 .A88 2008    Available  ---
Description xxx, 327 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-308) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary These essays are organised into four sections, dealing with the history of war crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II, the sometimes diverging Allied attempts to come to terms with the Nazi concentration camp system, the ability of postwar societies to confront war crimes of the past and the legacy of war crime trials.
Subject War crime trials -- Germany.
War crime trials.
Germany.
War crime trials.
Added Author Heberer, Patricia.
Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959-
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