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In the face of the horrors of the Second World War, the international community struggled to come to grips with a radically new crime: genocide—the deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire people. This book traces the world’s halting development of a courtroom response to the Nazis’ effort to des...

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Published inCrimes of the Holocaust p. ix
Main Author Stephan Landsman
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 01.01.2011
Subjects
Anthropology
Arts
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Crimes against humanity
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Criminal litigation
Criminal offenses
Criminal prosecution
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Ethnoreligious groups
Fascism
Genocide
International humanitarian law
International law
Jewish peoples
Judicial system
Law
Laws of war
Legal proceedings
Literary elements
Literature
Narrative plot
Nazism
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Prologues
Trial court proceedings
Trials
War crimes
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Summary:In the face of the horrors of the Second World War, the international community struggled to come to grips with a radically new crime: genocide—the deliberate attempt to exterminate an entire people. This book traces the world’s halting development of a courtroom response to the Nazis’ effort to destroy all of Europe’s Jews in what has come to be referred to as the Holocaust. It analyzes the strengths and limitations of four of the most prominent proceedings conducted against alleged Nazi criminals using the tools of the Anglo-American legal tradition, and considers their significance for contemporary national and international
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