Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 273 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0198208723
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9780198208723
Content:
When the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe. Yet as Donald Bloxham shows in this incisive new account the reality was that these proceedings failed: not only did the guilty often escape punishment but the final solution was largely written out of history in the post-war era. - ;When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what ha
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Part I: The Legal Prism; Part II: Post-War Representations and Perceptions; Part III: The Trials and Posterity; CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A: Charter of the International Military Tribunal, article 6; Appendix B: The defendants and organizations before the IMT; Appendix C: The subsequent Nuremberg proceedings; Bibliography; Index
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CoverPreface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. AIMS AND METHODOLOGY -- 2. THE TRIAL TABLEAU -- 3. THE EARLY FORMATION OF PUNISHMENT POLICY -- 4. THE HOLOCAUST ON TRIAL: AN OVERVIEW -- Part I: The Legal Prism -- 1. Shaping the Trials: The Politics of Trial Policy, -- 1.1 THE THEORY BEHIND THE IMT PROSECUTION -- 1.2 THE IMT DEFENDANTS: INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS -- 1.3 THE PROSPECT OF A SECOND INTERNATIONAL TRIAL -- 1.4 THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF THE OCCUPATION OF GERMANY -- 1.5 'TRIAL THAT NEVER WAS': THE ABORTED SECOND TRIAL OF MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS -- 1.6 UNEQUAL PROGRESSIONS: THE COURSES OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN TRIAL POLICY FROM 1946 -- 1.7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OCCWC -- 1.8 THE OCCWC AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE: THE INDUSTRIALISTS -- 1.9 THE OCCWC AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE: THE MILITARY -- 1.10 BRITISH DOMESTIC OPPOSITION TO THE TRIALS -- 1.11 THE POLITICS OF THE SUBSEQUENT NUREMBERG PROCEEDINGS -- 1.12 CONCLUSIONS -- 2. Race-Specific Crimes in Punishment and Re- Education Policy: The "Jewish Factor" -- 2.1 THE SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE -- 2.2 DEPLOYING THE EVIDENCE: 'HARD DOCUMENTS' AND 'REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLES' -- 2.3 APPLYING 'WAR CRIMES' AND 'CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY' -- 2.4 THE 'CONSPIRACY' TO INITIATE WAR: THE TYRANNY OF A CONSTRUCT -- 2.5 THE 'JEWISH FACTOR' IN THE ROYAL WARRANT TRIALS -- 2.6 OCCUPATION POLICY, VICTIM SPECIFICITY AND SYMBOLS OF SUFFERING -- 2.7 CONCLUSIONS -- Part II: Post-War Representations and Perceptions -- 3. The Limits of the Legal Imagination: Plumbing the Depths of Nazi Criminality -- 3.1 THE DACHAU TRIAL -- 3.2 THE 'BELSEN' TRIAL -- 3.3 THE IMT TRIAL AND THE CAMP SYSTEM -- 3.4 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BELZEC, SOBIBOR AND TREBLINKA -- 3.5 THE ABSENCE OF AKTION REINHARD: AN EXPROPRIATION EXERCISE? -- 3.6 THE ABSENCE OF AKTION REINHARD: BYPASSING THE CAMPS -- 3.7 CONCLUSIONS -- 4. The Failure of the Trial Medium: Charting the Breadth of Nazi Criminality -- 4.1 GENOCIDE IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE POST- WAR WORLD: AN OVERVIEW -- 4.2 AN EDUCATION IN GERMAN GUILT -- 4.3 WEST GERMAN RESPONSES TO THE IMT TRIAL -- 4.4 TOWARDS THE 'FINAL SOLUTION OF THE WAR CRIMINALS QUESTION' -- 4.5 THE BYSTANDERS JUDGE NUREMBERG -- 4.6 BRITISH AND AMERICAN 'REVISIONISM' -- 4.7 NEGATING ALLIED PUNISHMENT POLICY: PREMATURE RELEASES AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY -- 4.8 THE REVISED RHETORIC OF THE WEHRMACHT'S WAR -- CONCLUSIONS -- Part III: The Trials and Posterity -- 5. A Nuremberg Historiography of the Holocaust? -- 5. 1 LEGAL OMISSIONS: THE SS AND POLICE -- 5. 2 LEGAL OMISSIONS: THE 'OSTLAND' CRIMINALS -- 5. 3 THE NUREMBERG LEGACY: MOTIVATION FROM THE NAZI ÉLITE TO THE EXECUTIONERS -- 5. 4 THE NUREMBERG LEGACY: 'EXTERMINATION THROUGH WORK' -- 5. 5 CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198208723
Additional Edition:
Print version Genocide on Trial : War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory
Language:
English
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