War Crimes War Criminals And War Crimes Trials

Author : Donald Bloxham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Kevin Heller,Gerry Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Zhaoqi Cheng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811366970

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A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific by Zhaoqi Cheng Pdf

Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II. It offers a comprehensive review of key events during this period, covering preparations for the Trial, examining the role of the War Crimes Commission of the United Nations as well as offering a new analysis of the trial itself. Addressing the question of conventional war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace (such as the Pearl Harbor Incident) and violations of warfare law, it follows up with a discussion of post-trial events and the fate of war criminals on trial. Additionally, it examines other Japanese war crime trials which happened in Asia, as well as considering the legacy of the Tokyo trial itself, and the foundation of a new Post-War International Order in East Asia.

Author : Patricia Heberer,J_rgen MatthÜus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Norman E. Tutorow,Karen Winnovich
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024595329

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War Crimes, War Criminals, and War Crimes Trials by Norman E. Tutorow,Karen Winnovich Pdf

4,500 entries, annotated, mostly English and German with some material in other European languages. Includes books, articles, dissertations, microfilms and tapes, and information on the location of documents. Sections IV-VI (pp. 105-256) deal with war crimes in Europe during World War II, the Holocaust, and concentration camps (listing 34 specific camps apart from the general material). Section IX (pp. 283-342) is devoted to the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, and section XII (pp. 408-428) lists material on the Eichmann trial in 1961.

Author : Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government. Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes,Telford Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D034258874

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Final Report to the Secretary of the Army on Nuernberg War Crimes Trials Under Control Council Law No. 10 by Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone). Office of Military Government. Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes,Telford Taylor Pdf

Available on the Military Legal Resources website.

Author : Timothy P. Maga
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813128986

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Judgment at Tokyo by Timothy P. Maga Pdf

In the years since the Japanese war crimes trials concluded, the proceedings have been colored by charges of racism, vengeance, and guilt. In this book, Tim Maga contends that in the trials good law was practiced and evil did not go unpunished. The defendants ranged from lowly Japanese Imperial Army privates to former prime ministers. Since they did not represent a government for which genocide was a policy pursuit, their cases were more difficult to prosecute than those of Nazi war criminals. In contrast to Nuremberg, the efforts in Tokyo, Guam, and other locations throughout the Pacific received little attention by the Western press. Once the Cold War began, America needed Pacific allies and the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers throughout the 1930s and early 1940s were rarely mentioned. The trials were described as phony justice and "Japan bashing". Keenan and his compatriots adopted criminal court tactics and established precedents in the conduct of war crimes trials that still stand today. Maga reviews the context for the trials, recounts the proceedings, and concludes that they were, in fact, decent examples of American justice and fair play.

Author : Georgina Fitzpatrick,Timothy L.H. McCormack,Narrelle Morris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Michael S. Bryant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472505026

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A World History of War Crimes by Michael S. Bryant Pdf

A World History of War Crimes provides a truly global history of war crimes and the involvement of the legal systems faced with these acts. Documenting the long historical arc traced by human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity designed to maintain a religiously conceived cosmic order to the gradual use in the modern age of the criminal trial as a means of enforcing universal norms, this book provides a comprehensive one-volume account of war and the laws that have governed conflict since the dawn of world civilizations. Throughout his narrative, Michael Bryant locates the origin and evolution of the law of war in the interplay between different cultures. While showing that no single philosophical idea underlay the law of war in world history, this volume also proves that war in global civilization has rarely been an anarchic free-for-all. Rather, from its beginnings warfare has been subject to certain constraints defined by the unique needs and cosmological understandings of the cultures that produce them. Only in late modernity has law assumed its current international humanitarian form. The criminalization of war crimes in international courts today is only the most recent development of the ancient theme of constraining when and how war may be fought.

Author : LIU Daqun,ZHANG Binxin
Publisher : Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788283480566

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Historical War Crimes Trials in Asia by LIU Daqun,ZHANG Binxin Pdf

Author : Suzannah Linton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191652981

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Hong Kong's War Crimes Trials by Suzannah Linton Pdf

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British military held 46 trials in Hong Kong in which 123 defendants, from Japan and Formosa (Taiwan), were tried for war crimes. This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of these trials. The subject matter of the trials spanned war crimes committed during the fall of Hong Kong, its occupation, and in the period after the capitulation following the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but before the formal surrender. They included killings of hors de combat, abuses in prisoner-of-war camps, abuse and murder of civilians during the military occupation, forced labour, and offences on the High Seas. The events adjudicated included those from Hong Kong, China, Japan, the High Seas, and Formosa (Taiwan). Taking place in the same historical period as the more famous Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, the Hong Kong war crimes trials provide key insights into events of the time, and the development of international criminal law and procedure in this period. A team of experts in international criminal law examine these trials in detail, placing them in their historical context, investigating how the courts conducted their proceedings and adjudicated acts alleged to be war crimes, and evaluating the extent to which the Hong Kong trials contributed to the development of contemporary issues, such as joint criminal enterprise and superior orders. There is also comparative analysis with contemporaneous proceedings, such as the Australian War Crimes trials, trials in China, and those conducted by the British in Singapore and Germany, placing them within the wider history of international justice. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of international criminal law and procedure.

Author : James Larry Taulbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216033561

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War Crimes and Trials by James Larry Taulbee Pdf

This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved. War Crimes and Trials analyzes the evolution of war crime trials through primary sources. Beginning with a general discussion of why regulations for war have evolved, it then illustrates the resulting changes in the nature and consequences of war as well as attitudes toward war as a part of international life. Moreover, it contextualizes contemporary rules that pertain to both international and non-international armed conflicts. The heart of the book focuses on 12 World War II cases central to the development of war law over the next 50 years, including the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of major war criminals. It additionally dedicates discussion to the evolution of the law after World War II as set in motion by the United Nations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions and amendments, the background and operation of the ad hoc international criminal courts, and the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court, illustrating problems and successes through 12 cases drawn from these four courts.

Author : Sandra Wilson,Robert Cribb,Beatrice Trefalt,Dean Aszkielowicz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Donald Bloxham
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191543357

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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 the history 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, and Allied 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 the post-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 of Nazism.

Author : Timothy L.H. McCormack,Steven Wheatley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004641709

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The Law of War Crimes by Timothy L.H. McCormack,Steven Wheatley Pdf