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Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
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Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
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Overview
From the 1940s until a recent lobbying effort by Plesch and colleagues, the UNWCC’s files were kept out of public view in the UN archives under pressure from the US government. The book answers why the commission and its files were closed and reveals that the lost precedents set by these cases have enormous practical utility for prosecuting war crimes today. They cover US and Allied prosecutions of torture, including “water treatment,” wartime sexual assault, and crimes by foot soldiers who were “just following orders.” Plesch’s book will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of the Second World War as well as provide ground-breaking revelations for historians and human rights practitioners alike.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781626164314 |
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Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
Publication date: | 04/20/2017 |
Pages: | 271 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Prosecuting Rape: The Modern Relevance of World War II Legal Practices
2. A New Paradigm for Providing Justice for International Human Rights Violations
3. When the Allies Condemned the Holocaust
4. Pursuing War Criminals All Over the World
5. The Holocaust Indictments: Prosecuting the "Foot Soldiers of Atrocity"
6. Fair Trials and Collective Responsibility for Criminal Acts
7. Crimes against Humanity: The "Freedom to Lynch" and the Indictments of Adolf Hitler
8. Liberating the Nazis
9. The Legacy Unleashed
AppendixesIndexAbout the Author
What People are Saying About This
The extraordinary trove of cases (above thirty-five thousand) that Plesch helped uncover reveals a far-reaching, daring, indeed radical attempt at promoting human rights as a standard for the postwar era. . . I also find a lot of bravery in a book that forcefully claims, against recent revisionist literature, that the formation of the UN was epoch-making and a moment worthy of reexamination.
The history recounted in this book has remained hidden since soon after the end of World War 2. It has been retrieved and meticulously researched by Dan Plesch and calls for a major revision of the history of international war crimes. This is essential reading for students, researchers or practitioners of international humanitarian law. Apart from that, it is a fascinating, accessible and well written account.
This important and revelatory book examines the remarkably prescient work of a UN Commission, in the years before the end of the war, to prepare legal doctrines and trial procedures by which perpetrators of the Holocaust and of Japanese army barbarities could be brought to justice. Its precedents have a resonance and relevance today, as we grapple with how to prosecute the crimes of ISIS and Assad. The book is clearly and comprehensibly written for a general readership, but will be of professional value for historians and lawyers involved in the sadly increasing business of punishing crimes against humanity.
This important and revelatory book examines the remarkably prescient work of a UN Commission, in the years before the end of the war, to prepare legal doctrines and trial procedures by which perpetrators of the Holocaust and of Japanese army barbarities could be brought to justice. Its precedents have a resonance and relevance today, as we grapple with how to prosecute the crimes of ISIS and Assad. The book is clearly and comprehensibly written for a general readership, but will be of professional value for historians and lawyers involved in the sadly increasing business of punishing crimes against humanity.