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The Leipzig trials : German war crimes and their legal consequences after World War I / by Gerd Hankel ; translated by Belinda Cooper.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: KK73.5.L45 H3613 2014

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    "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 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 war was legitimate, with disastrous effects in World War II, but also paved the way to the Nuremberg Trials."--Back cover.
    Uniform Title
    Leipziger Prozesse. English
    Series
    Library of human rights ; 4. Human rights series, volume 4
    Library of human rights ; 4.
    Human rights series (Republic of Letters Publishing) ; v. 4.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Hankel, Gerd, author.
    Published
    Dordrecht, Netherlands ; St. Lous, MO : Republic of Letters Publishing BV, 2014
    ©2014
    Locale
    Germany
    Allemagne
    Contents
    Part I: Prior History: from the End of the War to the Beginning of the Trials (1918-1921)
    1. The Allied demand for punishment
    2. German countermeasures and Allied concessions: the first step towards revising Versailles
    3. From the Start of the investigations to the first trial before the Reich Court
    4. Digression: the planned trial of Wilhelm II and its failure
    Part II: The Trials before the Reich Court and the Reich Prosecutor's Investigation (1921-1927)
    1. Subject and progress of the trials
    2. On the charges of atrocities and systematic inhuman behavior by German troops
    3. On the charge of murder and manslaughter of members of the enemy civilian population
    4. The charge of mistreatment of prisoners of war
    5. On the charge of deportation and forced labor
    6. On the sea war in general and the charge of sinking ships without warning, particularly in unrestricted submarine warfare
    7. On the difficulty of prosecuting crimes in the air war
    Part III: Repercussions and Adjustments (1928-1945)
    1. Trials in absentia in Belgium and France and their aftermath
    2. Once again: the sinking of the Llandovery Castle, or how a crime disappears
    3. The laws of war and war crimes in World War II.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Cooper, Belinda, translator.
    Notes
    Originally published in German by Hamburger Edition in 2003.
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-405) and index.
    Part I: Prior History: from the End of the War to the Beginning of the Trials (1918-1921) -- 1. The Allied demand for punishment -- 2. German countermeasures and Allied concessions: the first step towards revising Versailles -- 3. From the Start of the investigations to the first trial before the Reich Court -- 4. Digression: the planned trial of Wilhelm II and its failure -- Part II: The Trials before the Reich Court and the Reich Prosecutor's Investigation (1921-1927) -- 1. Subject and progress of the trials -- 2. On the charges of atrocities and systematic inhuman behavior by German troops -- 3. On the charge of murder and manslaughter of members of the enemy civilian population -- 4. The charge of mistreatment of prisoners of war -- 5. On the charge of deportation and forced labor -- 6. On the sea war in general and the charge of sinking ships without warning, particularly in unrestricted submarine warfare -- 7. On the difficulty of prosecuting crimes in the air war -- Part III: Repercussions and Adjustments (1928-1945) -- 1. Trials in absentia in Belgium and France and their aftermath -- 2. Once again: the sinking of the Llandovery Castle, or how a crime disappears -- 3. The laws of war and war crimes in World War II.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9789089791320
    9089791329
    9789089791306
    9089791302
    Physical Description
    viii, 415 pages ; 25 cm.

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