War Crimes Trials And Investigations

Author : Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640723

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War Crimes Trials and Investigations by Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher Pdf

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History, Violence Studies, International Criminal Justice, International Relations, and Moral Philosophy. The contributors are experts in their respective fields and the chapters highlight each discipline’s major trends, debates, methods and approaches to mass atrocity, genocide, and crimes against humanity, as well as their interactions with adjacent disciplines. Case studies illustrate how the respective disciplines work in practice, including examples from the Allied Hunger Blockade, WWII, the Guatemalan and Spanish Civil Wars, the Former Yugoslavia, and Uganda. Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial orientation when approaching the specialist literature in each case, this edited collection equips readers with what they need to know in order to navigate a complex, and until now, deeply fragmented field. A diverse and interdisciplinary body of research, this book will be indispensable reading for scholars of war crimes.

Author : Vladimír Dzuro
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640122291

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The Investigator by Vladimír Dzuro Pdf

The war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at an Ovčara pig farm in 1991. An international tribunal was set up to try the perpetrators of crimes such as this, and one of the accused was Slavko Dokmanović, who at the time was the mayor of a local town. Vladimír Dzuro, a criminal detective from Prague, was one of the investigators charged with discovering what happened on that horrific night at Ovčara. The story Dzuro presents here, drawn from his daily notes, is devastating. It was a time of brutal torture, random killings, and the disappearance of innocent people. Dzuro provides a gripping account of how he and a handful of other investigators picked up the barest of leads that eventually led them to the gravesite where they exhumed the bodies. They were able to track down Dokmanović, only to find that taking him into custody was a different story altogether. The politics that led to the war hindered justice once it ended. Without any thoughts of risk to their own personal safety, Dzuro and his colleagues were determined to bring Dokmanović to justice. In addition to the story of the pursuit and arrest of Dokmanović, The Investigator provides a realistic picture of the war crime investigations that led to the successful prosecution of a number of war criminals. Visit warcrimeinvestigator.com for more information or watch a book trailer.

Author : Kevin Heller,Gerry Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199671144

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The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials by Kevin Heller,Gerry Simpson Pdf

Several war crimes trials are well-known to scholars, but others have received far less attention. This book assesses a number of these little-studied trials to recognise institutional innovations, clarify doctrinal debates, and identify their general relevance to the development of international criminal law.

Author : Yuma Totani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174737

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The Tokyo War Crimes Trial by Yuma Totani Pdf

"This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Through extensive research in Japanese, American, Australian, and Indian archives, Yuma Totani taps into a large body of previously underexamined sources to explore some of the central misunderstandings and historiographical distortions that have persisted to the present day. Foregrounding these voluminous records, Totani disputes the notion that the trial was an exercise in “victors’ justice” in which the legal process was egregiously compromised for political and ideological reasons; rather, the author details the achievements of the Allied prosecution teams in documenting war crimes and establishing the responsibility of the accused parties to show how the IMTFE represented a sound application of the legal principles established at Nuremberg. This study deepens our knowledge of the historical intricacies surrounding the Tokyo trial and advances our understanding of the Japanese conduct of war and occupation during World War II, the range of postwar debates on war guilt, and the relevance of the IMTFE to the continuing development of international humanitarian law."

Author : Sandra Wilson,Robert Cribb,Beatrice Trefalt,Dean Aszkielowicz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231542685

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Japanese War Criminals by Sandra Wilson,Robert Cribb,Beatrice Trefalt,Dean Aszkielowicz Pdf

Beginning in late 1945, the United States, Britain, China, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and later the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China convened national courts to prosecute Japanese military personnel for war crimes. The defendants included ethnic Koreans and Taiwanese who had served with the armed forces as Japanese subjects. In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Japanese leaders. While the fairness of these trials has been a focus for decades, Japanese War Criminals instead argues that the most important issues arose outside the courtroom. What was the legal basis for identifying and detaining subjects, determining who should be prosecuted, collecting evidence, and granting clemency after conviction? The answers to these questions helped set the norms for transitional justice in the postwar era and today contribute to strategies for addressing problematic areas of international law. Examining the complex moral, ethical, legal, and political issues surrounding the Allied prosecution project, from the first investigations during the war to the final release of prisoners in 1958, Japanese War Criminals shows how a simple effort to punish the guilty evolved into a multidimensional struggle that muddied the assignment of criminal responsibility for war crimes. Over time, indignation in Japan over Allied military actions, particularly the deployment of the atomic bombs, eclipsed anger over Japanese atrocities, and, among the Western powers, new Cold War imperatives took hold. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the construction of the postwar international order in Asia and to our comprehension of the difficulties of implementing transitional justice.

Author : Gary Jonathan Bass
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400851713

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Stay the Hand of Vengeance by Gary Jonathan Bass Pdf

International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times cynically abandon the pursuit of international justice altogether? Why today does justice seem so slow to come for war crimes victims in the Balkans? In this book, Gary Bass offers an unprecedented look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and a broad historical perspective. The Nuremberg trials powerfully demonstrated how effective war crimes tribunals can be. But there have been many other important tribunals that have not been as successful, and which have been largely left out of today's debates about international justice. This timely book brings them in, using primary documents to examine the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, World War I, the Armenian genocide, World War II, and the recent wars in the former Yugoslavia. Bass explains that bringing war criminals to justice can be a military ordeal, a source of endless legal frustration, as well as a diplomatic nightmare. The book takes readers behind the scenes to see vividly how leaders like David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton have wrestled with these agonizing moral dilemmas. The book asks how law and international politics interact, and how power can be made to serve the cause of justice. Bass brings new archival research to bear on such events as the prosecution of the Armenian genocide, presenting surprising episodes that add to the historical record. His sections on the former Yugoslavia tell--with important new discoveries--the secret story of the politicking behind the prosecution of war crimes in Bosnia, drawing on interviews with senior White House officials, key diplomats, and chief prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Bass concludes that despite the obstacles, legalistic justice for war criminals is nonetheless worth pursuing. His arguments will interest anyone concerned about human rights and the pursuit of idealism in international politics.

Author : John J. Dunphy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476633374

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Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials by John J. Dunphy Pdf

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Americans--many barely out of their teens--gathered evidence, interviewed witnesses, apprehended suspects and prosecuted defendants at trials held at Dachau. Their work often put them in harm's way--some suspects facing arrest preferred to shoot it out. The WCG successfully prosecuted the perpetrators of the Malmedy Massacre, in which 84 American prisoners of war were shot by their German captors, and Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny, aptly described as "the most dangerous man in Europe." Operation Paperclip, however, placed some war criminals--scientists and engineers recruited by the U.S. government--beyond their reach. From the ruins of the Third Reich arose a Nazi underground that preyed on Americans--especially members of the WCG.

Author : Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079354372

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The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today by Beth A. Griech-Polelle Pdf

Towards the close of World War II, world leaders had to address the question of what to do with alleged war criminals. In 1945, an International Military Tribunal (IMT) was established to see that war criminals would face justice. This collection of essay

Author : Georgina Fitzpatrick,Timothy L.H. McCormack,Narrelle Morris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004292055

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Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51 by Georgina Fitzpatrick,Timothy L.H. McCormack,Narrelle Morris Pdf

This unique volume provides a detailed analysis of Australia’s 300 war crimes trials of principally Japanese accused conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

Author : Patricia Heberer,J_rgen MatthÜus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803210844

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Atrocities on Trial by Patricia Heberer,J_rgen MatthÜus Pdf

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.

Author : Fausto Pocar,Marco Pedrazzi,Micaela Frulli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781955925

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War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities by Fausto Pocar,Marco Pedrazzi,Micaela Frulli Pdf

ŠThis comprehensive collection addresses an overlooked area: war crimes and the conduct of hostilities. It uplifts aspects that are particularly under-appreciated, including cultural property, fact-finding, arms transfer, chemical weapons, sexual viole

Author : Donald Bloxham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198208723

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Genocide on Trial by Donald Bloxham Pdf

When the Allies decided to try German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to create a record of what had happened in Europe. This ground-breaking new study shows how Britain and the United States went about inscribing thehistory of Nazi Germany and the effect their trial and occupation policies had on both long and short term 'memory' in Germany and Britain. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, andAllied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' - the 'final solution of the Jewish question' - was largely written out of history in thepost-war era and the trials failed to transmit the breadth of German criminality. Finally, with reference to the historiography of the Holocaust, Genocide on Trial illuminates the function of the trials in perpetuating misleading generalizations about the course of the Holocaust and the nature ofNazism.

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:60059503

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The Investigation by Peter Weiss Pdf

Author : Gerd Hankel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9089791329

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The Leipzig Trials: German War Crimes and Their Legal Consequences After World War I by Gerd Hankel Pdf

After World War I, the Allies aimed to prosecute Germans accused of war crimes but ultimately agreed to allow the Reichsgericht in Leipzig to try them. This is the first systematic, highly readable scholarly assessment of all these cases. Of the 900 Germans on Allied extradition lists, only a few faced court investigations; seven were convicted, ten found not guilty; charges against all others were dropped. Hankel demonstrates how German courts' war crimes definitions revealed differences between German and international interpretations of existing agreements on the treatment of civilians, partisans, or prisoners of war. The Leipzig trials reinforced German perceptions that their conduct of war was legitimate, with disastrous effects in World War II, but also paved the way to the Nuremberg Trials. CONTENTS: Introduction PART I: PRIOR HISTORY - FROM THE END OF THE WAR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIALS (1918-1921) 1. The Allied Demand for Punishment 2. German Countermeasures and Allied Concessions-The First Step Towards Revising Versailles 3. From the Start of the Investigations to the First Trial Before the Reich Court 4. Digression: The Planned Trial of Wilhelm II and its Failure PART II: THE TRIALS BEFORE THE REICH COURT AND THE REICH PROSECUTOR'S INVESTIGATION (1921-1927) 1. Subject and Progress of the Trials 2. On the Charges: Atrocities and Systematic Inhuman Behavior by German Troops 3. On the Charge of Murder and Manslaughter of Members of the Enemy Civilian Population 4. The Charge of Mistreatment of Prisoners of War 5. On the Charge of Deportation and Forced Labor 6. On the Sea War in General and the Charge of Sinking Ships without Warning, Particularly in "Unrestricted" Submarine Warfare 7. On the Difficulty of Prosecuting Crimes in the Air War PART III: REPERCUSSIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS (1928-1945) 1. Trials in Absentia in Belgium and France and Their Aftermath 2. Once Again: The Sinking of the Llandovery Castle, or How a Crime Disappears 3. The Laws of War and War Crimes in World War II Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Index About the Author: Gerd Hankel, Dr. jur., M.A. (1957) is a legal scholar and guest fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He has published extensively in the field of international (humanitarian/criminal) law and human rights.

Author : Kerstin von Lingen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319429878

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War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956 by Kerstin von Lingen Pdf

This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two. After the Second World War in Asia, the victorious Allies placed around 5,700 Japanese on trial for war crimes. Ostensibly crafted to bring perpetrators to justice, the trials intersected in complex ways with the great issues of the day. They were meant to finish off the business of World War Two and to consolidate United States hegemony over Japan in the Pacific, but they lost impetus as Japan morphed into an ally of the West in the Cold War. Embattled colonial powers used the trials to bolster their authority against nationalist revolutionaries, but they found the principles of international humanitarian law were sharply at odds with the inequalities embodied in colonialism. Within nationalist movements, local enmities often overshadowed the reckoning with Japan. And hovering over the trials was the critical question: just what was justice for the Japanese in a world where all sides had committed atrocities?