LEADER 04448cam a2200589 i 4500001 257141 005 20240621200619.0 008 160205s2016 enka b 001 0 eng d 010 2016932743 020 9780199669752 |q(hardback) 020 0199669759 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)ocn961355133 035 257141 042 lccopycat 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 NLE |beng |erda |cDLC |dNLE |dYDX |dOCLCF |dMUU |dRCJ |dCUI |dCLU |dOCLCQ |dLHM 050 00 KZ1176.5 |b.P75 2016 100 1 Priemel, Kim Christian, |d1977- |eauthor. 245 14 The betrayal : |bthe Nuremberg trials and German divergence / |cKim Christian Priemel. 250 First edition. 264 1 Oxford, United Kingdom : |bOxford University Press, |c2016. 300 xiv, 481 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-468) and index. 505 00 |gIntroduction: |tDrawing lines -- |tMapping the West : Nuremberg's sources -- |tConstructing Nuremberg -- |tLunatic fringe, mostly -- |tPaving the Sonderweg -- |tSaving capitalism -- |tTrying modernity or La Trahison des Clercs -- |tEast by south-east : the military cases -- |tReintegrating the other -- |gConclusion. 520 8 At the end of World War II the Allies faced a threefold challenge: how to punish perpetrators of appalling crimes for which the categories of 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' had to be coined; how to explain that these had been committed by Germany, of all nations; and how to reform Germans. The Allied answer to this conundrum was the application of historical reasoning to legal procedure. In the thirteen Nuremberg trials held between 1945 and 1949, and in corresponding cases elsewhere, a concerted effort was made to punish key perpetrators while at the same time providing a complex analysis of the Nazi state and German history. Building on a long debate about Germany's divergence from a presumed Western path of development, Allied prosecutors sketched a historical trajectory which had led Germany to betray the Western model. Historical reasoning both accounted for the moral breakdown of a 'civilised' nation and rendered plausible arguments that this had indeed been a collective failure rather than one of a small criminal clique. The prosecutors therefore carefully laid out how institutions such as private enterprise, academic science, the military, or bureaucracy, which looked ostensibly similar to their opposite numbers in the Allied nations, had been corrupted in Germany even before Hitler's rise to power. While the argument, depending on individual protagonists, subject matters, and contexts, met with uneven success in court, it offered a final twist which was of obvious appeal in the Cold War to come: if Germany had lost its way, it could still be brought back into the Western fold. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. 650 0 Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. 650 0 War crimes (International law) 650 0 Political culture |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 Germany |xHistory |y1933-1945 |xHistoriography. 651 0 Germany |xHistory |y1918-1933 |xHistoriography. 650 0 National socialism |xSocial aspects. 650 0 Sociological jurisprudence |zGermany |xHistory. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. 611 27 Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals (Germany : 1945-1946) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01709901 611 27 Nuremberg War Crime Trials (Germany : 1946-1949) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01709731 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 7 Atrocities. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00820727 650 7 Historiography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00958221 650 7 National socialism |xSocial aspects. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01033778 650 7 Political culture. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01069263 650 7 Sociological jurisprudence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01123856 650 7 War crimes (International law) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01910323 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 Germany |zNuremberg. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01207726 648 7 1900-1999 |2fast 852 0 |bstacks |hKZ1176.5 |i.P75 2016