Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Contents:
Chronology of Nazi crimes and trials, 1919-1957 -- Historical essay -- Brief historiographical essay -- Documents. Enabling laws : the legal foundations of postwar courts trying Nazi crimes -- The Nuremburg war crimes trials : selected trial documents -- Trials by army courts : the Belsen and Dachau trials -- Trials by Polish courts -- Trials by Soviet courts : the Kharkov trial, December 15-18, 1943 -- Trials by German courts.
Summary:
"With this timely book in Hackett Publishing's Passages series, Michael Bryant presents a wide-ranging survey of the trials of Nazi war criminals in the wartime and immediate postwar period. ntroduced by an extensive historical survey putting these proceedings into their international context, this volume makes the case, central to Hackett's collection for undergraduate courses, that these events constituted a 'key moment' that has influenced the course of history. Appended to Bryant's analysis is a substantial section of primary sources that should stimulate student discussion and raise questions that are pertinent to warfare and human rights abuses today"--Publisher's description
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