Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice
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Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice

Law, Memory, and "The Good War"

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice

Law, Memory, and "The Good War"

About this book

This ground-breaking comparative perspective on the subject of World War II war crimes and war justice focuses on American and German atrocities. Almost every war involves loss of life of both military personnel and civilians, but World War II involved an unprecedented example of state-directed and ideologically motivated genocide—the Holocaust. Beyond this horrific, premeditated war crime perpetrated on a massive scale, there were also isolated and spontaneous war crimes committed by both German and U.S. forces. The book is focused upon on two World War II atrocities—one committed by Germans and the other by Americans. The author carefully examines how the U.S. Army treated each crime, and gives accounts of the atrocities from both German and American perspectives. The two events are contextualized within multiple frameworks: the international law of war, the phenomenon of war criminality in World War II, and the German and American collective memories of World War II. Americans, Germans and War Crimes Justice: Law, Memory, and "The Good War" provides a fresh and comprehensive perspective on the complex and sensitive subject of World War II war crimes and justice.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780313381928
eBook ISBN
9780313381935

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. War Crimes and the Law of War
  7. Chapter 2. Building a Case
  8. Chapter 3. A Town Brought to Trial
  9. Chapter 4. ā€œWorms on the Groundā€
  10. Chapter 5. Divided Counsel
  11. Chapter 6. Fed to the Lions
  12. Chapter 7. Germans as Victims
  13. Chapter 8. Posttrial Drama
  14. Chapter 9. Two Kinds of Justice?
  15. Chapter 10. Memory
  16. Chapter 11. August 4, 2003
  17. Epilogue
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index