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03302aam a2200421 a 4500 001 85277AB2F1E611E78A18091E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180105010221 008 110314s2012 mauaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011011137 020 $a 0674061578 020 $a 9780674061576 035 $a (OCoLC)708243796 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d BWX $d ONS $d BDX $d RCJ $d DEBBG $d LHU $d CDX $d COH $d OCLCQ $d IaU-L $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-gx 050 00 $a KK73.5.D33 $b J37 2012 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/K 082 00 $a 341.6/90268 $2 22 084 $a 8,1 $2 ssgn 084 $a NQ 6010 $2 rvk 084 $a x 169.14 $2 ifzs 100 1 $a Jardim, Tomaz, $d 1974- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011016981 245 14 $a The Mauthausen trial : $b American military justice in Germany / $c Tomaz Jardim. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a 276 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-262) and index. 505 00 $g Conclusion. $t Judgment at Dachau -- $t American investigators at Mauthausen -- $t The prosecution crafts its case -- $t The defendants in the dock -- $t Judgment at Dachau -- $g Conclusion. 520 $a "Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on May 27, 1947, the first of forty-nine men condemned to death for war crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp mounted the gallows at Landsberg prison near Munich. The mass execution that followed resulted from an American military trial conducted at Dachau in the spring of 1946 - a trial that lasted only thirty-six days and yet produced more death sentences than any other in American history. 520 $a The Mauthausen trial was part of a massive series of proceedings designed to judge and punish Nazi war criminals in the most expedient manner the law would allow. There was no doubt that the crimes had been monstrous. Yet despite meting out punishment to a group of incontestably guilty men, the Mauthausen trial reveals a troubling and seldom-recognized face of American postwar justice - one characterized by rapid proceedings, lax rules of evidence, and questionable interrogations. 520 $a Although the better-known Nuremberg trials are often regarded as epitomizing American judicial ideals, these trials were in fact the exception to the rule. Instead, as Tomaz Jardim convincingly demonstrates, the rough justice of the Mauthausen trial remains indicative of the most common - and yet least understood - American approach to war crimes prosecution. The Mauthausen Trial forces reflection on the implications of compromising legal standards in order to guarantee that guilty people do not walk free"--Pub. desc. 650 0 $a War crime trials $z Dachau. $z Dachau. 650 0 $a Trials (Genocide) $z Dachau. $z Dachau. 610 20 $a Mauthausen (Concentration camp) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Atrocities. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 $a Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) $z Austria. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180105014317.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85277AB2F1E611E78A18091E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search