Nazi crimes and the law
By: Nathan Stoltzfus, Henry Friedlander.
Contributors: Friedlander, Henry, 1930-
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780521899741
Subjects: War crime trials -- Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945 -- Law and legislation
Description: "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. In its various essays, the contributors reconstruct the historical setting of the crimes committed under the aegis of the Nazi regime and examine why postwar adjudication took place only within limits, within the national and international judicial forums responsible for prosecuting perpetrators. The topics discussed include the impact of the Nazi justice system on postwar justice, postwar legal proceedings against those who committed war crimes and genocide, the work of the Nuremberg tribunal and Allied trials, and judicial investigations and prosecutions in East Germany, West Germany, and Austria.

They span the postwar period up to contemporary U.S. legal efforts to deport Nazi criminals within its borders and libel suits brought by Holocaust deniers in British and Canadian courts, and they reveal new perspectives on the present and future implications of these trials."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: German law and Nazi crimes / Henry Friedlander; title: The setting and significance of the Nuremberg trials : a historian's perspective / Gerhard Weinberg; title: The American military commission trials of 1945 / Patricia Heberer; title: Punishing the excess : sadism, bureaucratized atrocity, and the U.S. Army concentration camp trials, 1945; title: 1947 / Michael Bryant; title: Perceptions and suppression of Nazi crimes by the postwar German judiciary / Joachim Perels; title: Getting away with murder : the T̈äubner case / Dick de Mildt; title: Cold war pressures and the German prosecution of Wehrmacht war crimes : the case of Cephalonia, 1943 / Nathan Stoltzfus; title: The trials of Nazi war criminals in Austria / Wilfried R. Garscha; title: The German-German rivalry and the prosecution of Nazi war criminals during the cold war, 1958; title: 1965 / Annette Weinke; title: History in the courthouse : the presentation of World War II crimes in U.S. courts 50 years later / Elizabeth B. White; title: Law, history, and holocaust denial in the courtroom : the Zündel and Irving cases / Christopher R. Browning.