
Americans, Germans, and War Crimes Justice
Law, Memory, and "The Good War"
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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 genocideāthe 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 atrocitiesāone 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. War Crimes and the Law of War
- Chapter 2. Building a Case
- Chapter 3. A Town Brought to Trial
- Chapter 4. āWorms on the Groundā
- Chapter 5. Divided Counsel
- Chapter 6. Fed to the Lions
- Chapter 7. Germans as Victims
- Chapter 8. Posttrial Drama
- Chapter 9. Two Kinds of Justice?
- Chapter 10. Memory
- Chapter 11. August 4, 2003
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index