Reassessing The Nuremberg Military Tribunals

Author : Kim Christian Priemel,Alexa Stiller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455307

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Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals by Kim Christian Priemel,Alexa Stiller Pdf

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial-the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation-neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of "Subsequent Trials"-ignores the unique historical and legal character of the NMT trials, which differed significantly from that of their predecessor. The NMT trials marked a decisive shift both in terms of analysis of the Third Reich and conceptualization of international criminal law. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the NMT and brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, history, and political science, exploring the genesis, impact, and legacy of the twelve Military Tribunals held at Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949. Kim C. Priemel is Assistant Professor of History at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. Alexa Stiller is Research Associate at the Department of Modern History and Contemporary History, University of Berne, Switzerland.

Author : Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Military Tribunals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
ISBN : UOM:39015007008686

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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949: Case 12: U.S. v. von Leeb (High Command case) by Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) Military Tribunals Pdf

Author : Kevin Jon Heller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191652868

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The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs). The judgments the NMTs produced have played a critical role in the development of international criminal law, particularly in terms of how courts currently understand war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. The trials are also of tremendous historical importance, because they provide a far more comprehensive picture of Nazi atrocities than their more famous predecessor, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT). The IMT focused exclusively on the 'major war criminals'-the Goerings, the Hesses, the Speers. The NMTs, by contrast, prosecuted doctors, lawyers, judges, industrialists, bankers-the private citizens and lower-level functionaries whose willingness to take part in the destruction of millions of innocents manifested what Hannah Arendt famously called 'the banality of evil'. The book is divided into five sections. The first section traces the evolution of the twelve NMT trials. The second section discusses the law, procedure, and rules of evidence applied by the tribunals, with a focus on the important differences between Law No. 10 and the Nuremberg Charter. The third section, the heart of the book, provides a systematic analysis of the tribunals' jurisprudence. It covers Law No. 10's core crimes-crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity-as well as the crimes of conspiracy and membership in a criminal organization. The fourth section then examines the modes of participation and defenses that the tribunals recognized. The final section deals with sentencing, the aftermath of the trials, and their historical legacy.

Author : International Military Tribunal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
ISBN : MINN:31951D037542824

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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuernberg, October 1946-April 1949 by International Military Tribunal Pdf

Author : International Military Tribunal
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:8596547404118

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The Nuremberg Trials (Volume 8) by International Military Tribunal Pdf

The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in the Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany. This volume contains trial proceedings from 20 February 1946 to7 March 1946.

Author : International Military Tribunal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946
ISBN : OCLC:10921279

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Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10 by International Military Tribunal Pdf

Author : Kim C. Priemel,Alexa Stiller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455321

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Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals by Kim C. Priemel,Alexa Stiller Pdf

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial—the International Military Tribunal or IMT. The dominant interpretation—neatly summarized in the ubiquitous formula of “Subsequent Trials”—ignores the unique historical and legal character of the NMT trials, which differed significantly from that of their predecessor. The NMT trials marked a decisive shift both in terms of analysis of the Third Reich and conceptualization of international criminal law. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of the NMT and brings together diverse perspectives from the fields of law, history, and political science, exploring the genesis, impact, and legacy of the twelve Military Tribunals held at Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949.

Author : Gerald D. Feldman,Wolfgang Seibel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 157181177X

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Networks of Nazi Persecution by Gerald D. Feldman,Wolfgang Seibel Pdf

The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on human and organizational resources they could not always control by hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of persecution, presented by prominent historians and social scientists. Gerald D. Feldman was Professor of History and Director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were 20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi period. Wolfgang Seibel is Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previous appointments include guest professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna (1992), and the University of California at Berkeley (1994). He was also a temporary member of the School of Social Science (1989/90) and of the School of Historical Studies (2003) of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Currently (2004/2005) he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research is mainly devoted to issues of politics, public bureaucracy and non-governmental organizations.

Author : Andrea Graziosi,Frank E. Sysyn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228009528

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Genocide by Andrea Graziosi,Frank E. Sysyn Pdf

Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth, but that expansion has also compounded the tensions between a rigid legal concept and the manifold realities researchers have discovered. The legal and political benefits that accompany genocide status have also reduced complex discussions of historical events to a simplistic binary – is it genocide or not? – a situation often influenced by powerful political pressures. Genocide addresses these tensions and tests the limits of the concept in cases ranging from the role of sexual violence during the Holocaust to state-induced mass starvation in Kazakh and Ukrainian history, while considering what the Armenian, Rwandan, and Burundi experiences reveal about the uses and pitfalls of reading history and conducting politics through the lens of genocide. Contributors examine the pressures that great powers have exerted in shaping the concept; the reaction Raphaël Lemkin, originator of the word “genocide,” had to the United Nations’ final resolution on the subject; France’s long-held choice not to use the concept of genocide in its courtrooms; the role of transformative social projects and use of genocide memory in politics; and the relation of genocide to mass violence targeting specific groups. Throughout, this comprehensive text offers innovative solutions to address the limitations of the genocide concept, while preserving its usefulness as an analytical framework.

Author : Nadia Bernaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317233848

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Business and Human Rights by Nadia Bernaz Pdf

Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of business – companies and businesspeople – in the human rights area, or, to phrase it differently, to bridge the accountability gap. Bridging the accountability gap is to be understood as both setting standards and holding corporations and businesspeople to account if violations occur. Adopting a legal perspective, this book presents the ways in which this dual undertaking has been and could be further carried out in the future, and evaluates the extent to which the various initiatives in the field bridge the corporate accountability gap. It looks at the historical background of the field of business and human rights, and examines salient periods, events and cases. The book then goes on to explore the relevance of international human rights law and international criminal law for global business. International soft law and policy initiatives which have blossomed in recent years are evaluated along with private modes of regulation. The book also examines how domestic law, especially the domestic law of multinational companies’ home countries, can be used to prevent and redress corporate related human rights violations.

Author : Jonathan Petropoulos,John K. Roth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 184545071X

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Gray Zones by Jonathan Petropoulos,John K. Roth Pdf

Few essays about the Holocaust are better known or more important than Primo Levi's reflections on what he called "the gray zone," a reality in which moral ambiguity and compromise were pronounced. In this volume accomplished Holocaust scholars, among them Raul Hilberg, Gerhard L. Weinberg, Christopher Browning, Peter Hayes, and Lynn Rapaport, explore the terrain that Levi identified. Together they bring a necessary interdisciplinary focus to bear on timely and often controversial topics in cutting-edge Holocaust studies that range from historical analysis to popular culture. While each essay utilizes a particular methodology and argues for its own thesis, the volume as a whole advances the claim that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more complex that event turns out to be. Only if ambiguities and compromises in the Holocaust and its aftermath are identified, explored, and at times allowed to remain--lest resolution deceive us--will our awareness of the Holocaust and its implications be as full as possible.

Author : Darryl Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192558893

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The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law by Darryl Robinson Pdf

In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe the evolution of international criminal tribunals, the elements of the core international crimes, the applicable modes of liability and defences, and the role of states in prosecuting international crimes. The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, however, takes a theoretically informed and refreshingly critical look at the most controversial issues in international criminal law, challenging prevailing practices, orthodoxies, and received wisdoms. Some of the contributions to the Handbook come from scholars within the field, but many come from outside of international criminal law, or indeed from outside law itself. The chapters are grounded in history, geography, philosophy, and international relations. The result is a Handbook that expands the discipline and should fundamentally alter how international criminal law is understood.

Author : Vladimir Petrović
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134996476

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The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise by Vladimir Petrović Pdf

This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should testify or not toward nuanced understanding of the history of the practice and making the best out of its performance in the future.

Author : Sabine Hildebrandt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785330681

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The Anatomy of Murder by Sabine Hildebrandt Pdf

Of the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to develop the scientific basis for its racialist dogma. As historian and anatomist Sabine Hildebrandt reveals, however, their complicity with the Nazi state went beyond the merely ideological. They progressed through gradual stages of ethical transgression, turning increasingly to victims of the regime for body procurement, as the traditional model of working with bodies of the deceased gave way, in some cases, to a new paradigm of experimentation with the “future dead.”

Author : Christoph Kreutzmüller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782388128

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Final Sale in Berlin by Christoph Kreutzmüller Pdf

Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its obliteration. Rather than just examining the steps taken by the persecutors, it also tells the stories of Jewish strategies in countering the effects of persecution. In doing so, this book exposes a fascinating paradox where Berlin, serving as the administrative heart of the Third Reich, was also the site of a dense network for Jewish self-help and assertion.