Atrocities on trial
Subtitle: historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes
By: edited by Patricia Heberer and Jürgen Matthäus ; foreword by Michael R. Marrus.
Contributors: Heberer, Patricia.; Matthäus, Jürgen, 1959-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; Published in association with the United States Holocaust Museum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln; [Washington, DC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780803210844
Subjects: War crime trials -- Germany.; War crime trials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
Table of contents: value: The lessons of Leipzig : punishing German War criminals after the First World War / Jürgen Matthäus; value: Early postwar justice in the American zone : the "Hadamar murder factory" trial / Patricia Heberer; value: U.S. Army war crimes trials in Germany, 1945-1947 / Lisa Yavnai; value: Law and politics in the subsequent Nuremberg trials, 1946-1949 / Jonathan Friedman; value: The Nuremberg doctors' trial and the limitations of context / Michael R. Marrus; value: "The scars of Ravensbrück" : medical experiments and British war crimes policy, 1945-1950 / Ulf Schmidt; value: The Sachsenhausen trials : war crimes prosecution in the Soviet occupation zone and in West and East Germany / Jonathan Friedman; value: "No ordinary criminal" : Georg Heuser, other mass murderers, and West German justice / Jürgen Matthäus; value: Tainted law : the West German judiciary and the prosecution of Nazi War criminals / Rebecca Wittmann; value: Justice in Austrian courts? The case of Josef W. and Austria's difficult relationship with its past / Patricia Heberer; value: Crimes-against-humanity trials in France and their historical and legal contexts : a retrospective look / Richard J. Golsan; value: Milestones and mythologies : the impact of Nuremberg / Donald Bloxham; value: Prosecution, condemnation, and punishment : ethical implications of atrocities on trial / John K. Roth.