Atrocities on Trial

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Atrocities on Trial
Author : Patricia Heberer
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Language : English
Release Date : 01 April 2008
ISBN : 9780803210844
Pages : 358 pages
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These essays are organised into four sections, dealing with the history of war crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II, the sometimes diverging Allied attempts to come to terms with the Nazi concentration camp system, the ability of postwar societies to confront war crimes of the past and the legacy of war crime trials.

Atrocities on Trial

These essays are organised into four sections, dealing with the history of war crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II, the sometimes diverging Allied attempts to come to terms with the Nazi concentration camp system, the ability of postwar societies to confront war crimes of the

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