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The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958

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The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958 Atrocity, Law, and History

Name: The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521178686
Price: 340.34 HKD
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Author: Hilary Earl
ISBN: 9780521178686

By Hilary Earl

Cambridge University Press November 2010

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ISBN-13: 9780521178686
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 2010
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front.

Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of the Einsatzgruppen, along with reinforcements, murdered approximately 1 million Soviet civilians in open air shootings and in gas vans and, in 1947, twenty-four leaders of these units were indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their part in the murders.

In addition to describing the legal proceedings that held these men accountable, this book also examines recent historiographical trends and perpetrator paradigms and expounds on such contested issues as the timing and genesis of the Final Solution, the perpetrators' route to crime and their motivation for killing, as well as discussing the tensions between law and history.

Contents:: Introduction; 1. The United States and the origins of the subsequent Nuremberg trials; 2. Otto Ohlendorf and the origins of the Einsatzgruppen trial; 3. Defendants; 4. Defense; 5. Trial; 6. Judge and judgment; 7. Aftermath; Conclusion.