The betrayal : the Nuremberg trials and German divergence
At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and ho...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford New York, NY : Oxford University Press,
2016
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schlagworte: | Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 War crimes (International law) Political culture National socialism Sociological jurisprudence World War, 1939-1945 Nürnberger Prozesse Deutschland Schuld |
| Umfang: | xiv, 481 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Drawing lines
- Mapping the West : Nuremberg's sources
- Contructing Nuremberg
- The lunatic fringe, mostly
- Paving the Sonderweg
- Saving capitalism
- Trying modernity or La Trahison des Clercs
- East by south-east : the military cases
- Reintegrating the other
- Conclusion.