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The Leipzig Trials
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The Leipzig Trials, an Account of the War, Criminals Trials and a Study of German Mentality
Excerpt from The Leipzig Trials, an Account of the War, Criminals Trials and a Study of German Mentality During the war no demand was more rightly made, or more constantly sustained, than that those who were guilty of crimes against the Laws of War and Humanity, both on land and sea, should be brought to justice. The demand was not confined to our own country. In the words of the notice issued by the French Government on 5th October, 1918, "acts so contrary to International Law, and to the very principles of human civilisation, should not go unpunished." And as Monsieur Louis Barthou said on 3rd November, 1917, "There must be punishment, and it must be swift." About the Publisher Forgotten B...
The Leipzig Trials: German War Crimes and Their Legal Consequences After World War I
After World War I, the Allies aimed to prosecute Germans accused of war crimes but ultimately agreed to allow the Reichsgericht in Leipzig to try them. This is the first systematic, highly readable scholarly assessment of all these cases. Of the 900 Germans on Allied extradition lists, only a few faced court investigations; seven were convicted, ten found not guilty; charges against all others were dropped. Hankel demonstrates how German courts' war crimes definitions revealed differences between German and international interpretations of existing agreements on the treatment of civilians, partisans, or prisoners of war. The Leipzig trials reinforced German perceptions that their conduct of ...
The Leipzig Trials, an Account of the War, Criminals Trials and a Study of German Mentality (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Leipzig Trials, an Account of the War, Criminals Trials and a Study of German Mentality During the war no demand was more rightly made, or more constantly sustained, than that those who were guilty of crimes against the Laws of War and Humanity, both on land and sea, should be brought to justice. The demand was not confined to our own country. In the words of the notice issued by the French Government on sth October, 1918, acts so contrary to International Law, and to the very principles of human civilisation, should not go unpunished. And as Monsieur Louis Barthou said on grd November, 1917, There must be punish ment, and it must be swift. About the Publisher Forgotten Book...
Atrocities on Trial
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.
