When the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe. Yet as Donald Bloxham shows in this incisive account, the reality was that these proceedings failed. Not only did the guilty often escape punishment but the final solution was largely written out of history in the post-war era.
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`Review from previous edition This excellent book reminds us that one of the many ways to hit historical gold is to reshuffle the cards and deal them afresh... Dr Bloxham writes so well and manages the three-ringed circus of his argument so deftly that his book is a lot easier to read and its argument easier to follow than might have been expected of an enterprise boldly transcending the departmental boundaries of law, history and politics. It must be of interest to far too many and various readerships to be allowed to be cast simply as a new item in the miscellaneous category of 'Holocaust Studies'.' Geoffrey Best, EHR, June 2002
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Donald Bloxham is at University of Edinburgh.
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Donald Bloxham's Genocide on Trial is among the most comprehensive and authoritative studies of post World War II war crimes trials ever written. Unlike most books on the subject, Bloxham does not limit his study to Nuremberg's International Military Tribunal. He reviews the vast majority of Allied war crimes trials and also the premature releases of convicted war criminals during the 1950s. Using new archival sources, Bloxham documents the British government's premature releases of prominent war criminals (like Kesselring and von Manstein) during the Cold War. The author convincingly proves his contention "that war crimes trials did little to clarify conceptualizations of Nazi criminality in the public sphere anywhere." Genocide on Trial should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in the history of war crimes trials.
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Foreign Office, New York, Liddell Hart, Third Reich, Cold War, Aktion Reinhard, High Command, Royal Warrant, Telford Taylor, Soviet Union, United States, Order Police, Ulrich Herbert, Chief of Staff, War Department, Polish Jews, The Legal Prism, Polish Jewry, Secretary of State, West German, Dale Jones, Frankfurter Rundschau, Military Governor, Alfried Krupp, Christopher Browning New!
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The words of this American prosecutor are instructive, revealing the intent to make the trial of the major war criminals a history lesson writ large. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Foreign Office, New York, Liddell Hart, Third Reich, Cold War, Aktion Reinhard, High Command, Royal Warrant, Telford Taylor, Soviet Union, United States, Order Police, Ulrich Herbert, Chief of Staff, War Department, Polish Jews, The Legal Prism, Polish Jewry, Secretary of State, West German, Dale Jones, Frankfurter Rundschau, Military Governor, Alfried Krupp, Christopher Browning New!
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- Road to Nuremberg by Bradley F. Smith on 11 pages
- The Cold War by Richard B. Taylor on 5 pages
- The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa on 5 pages
- The Politics of Retribution in Europe by István Deák on 4 pages
- The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1935-1945 by Gerald Reitlinger on page 121, page 202, and Back Matter
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- Philosemitism, Antisemitism And The Jews: Perspectives From The Middle Ages To The Twentieth Century (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Tony Kushner on page 248, and Back Matter
- The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History and the Limits of the Law by Devin O. Pendas in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: The Road to Global War (Third Reich) by Christian Leitz in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Law's Moving Image (Glasshouse S.) by Leslie Moran in Back Matter
- Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Zoï¿1/2 Vania Waxman on page 114
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