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Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
Dan Plesch
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Description for Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
Hardback. Reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United Nations' War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), which operated during and after World War II. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 tables, 7 figures, 7 figures, 11 tables. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JPVH; LB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include indictments of perpetrators of the Holocaust made while the death camps were still operating, which confounds the conventional wisdom that there was no official Allied response to the Holocaust at the time. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United ... Read more
Human Rights after Hitler reveals thousands of forgotten US and Allied war crimes prosecutions against Hitler and other Axis war criminals based on a popular movement for justice that stretched from Poland to the Pacific. These cases provide a great foundation for twenty-first-century human rights and accompany the achievements of the Nuremberg trials and postwar conventions. They include indictments of perpetrators of the Holocaust made while the death camps were still operating, which confounds the conventional wisdom that there was no official Allied response to the Holocaust at the time. This history also brings long overdue credit to the United ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28 g
Number of Pages
271
Place of Publication
Washington, DC, United States
ISBN
9781626164314
SKU
V9781626164314
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99-50
About Dan Plesch
Dan Plesch is director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of America, Hitler and the UN, coeditor of Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations, and has been a frequent contributor to the Guardian and other media.
Reviews for Human Rights after Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes
The author must be congratulated for his personal efforts in securing the release of the archive as well as for this well-written history of how a valuable legal resource was kept for decades hidden from the public in denial of their right to know.
Irish Times
Revelatory . . . Those interested in the development of human rights ... Read more
Irish Times
Revelatory . . . Those interested in the development of human rights ... Read more