Defeating Impunity: Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Legal History

Defeating Impunity: Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914

Edited by Ornella Rovetta · Pieter Lagrou
Berghahn Books October 2025

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ISBN-13
9781836950684
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication
October 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: Defeating Impunity in Twentieth-Century Europe
1. The Law of Military Occupation and the Belgian Trials after 1918
2. The Claims of Belgian Deported Workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924
3. Coining Postwar Justice from the Margins: Exile Lawyers in London, 1941–45
4. The Treasure Trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Archives, 1943–49
5. Legal Imagination and Legal Realism: ‘Crimes against Humanity’ and the US Racial Question in 1945
6. Filling the Legal Void: Jewish Victims, German Offenders and Belgian Judges, 1942–52
7. Soviet Footage of War Crimes, 1941–46: Between Propaganda and Judicial Evidence
Appendix 7.1. Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by Fedor Vasilchenko, Director of Newsreel Production, 8 September 1943 (Excerpts)
Appendix 7.2. Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by the Director of Newsreel Production Fedor Vasilchenko, 3 December 1943 (Excerpts)
8. From Majdanek to Demjanjuk: Failures of Justice in Postwar Germany, 1958–2009
9. Force of Fact: Municipal Authorities, Victim Associations and Forensic Science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
10. International Law in Action: The Role of the Legal Advisor in Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Conclusion
Index
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